‘I was 300 sheets to the wind’: Katrina and the Waves’ 1997 Eurovision win

Katrina Leskanich singing the UK’s winning entry in Dublin in May 1997. Photograph: John Giles/PA

When Katrina and the Waves performed the UK’s Eurovision entry in 1997, the BBC asked its Kansas-born singer to tone down her accent.

Katrina Leskanich was not pleased. “I told them that would be me impersonating Dick Van Dyke, and it wasn’t going to be possible.”