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{{Short description|1992 single by Michael Ball}}
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{{Infobox single
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| Name = One Step Out of Time
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| Type = Single
| Artist = [[Michael Ball (singer)|Michael Ball]]
| name = One Step Out of Time
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| cover = One Step Out of Time.jpg
| Format = [[CD Single]]<br>[[7" Single]]<br>[[12" Single]]
| Cover = One Step Out of Time.jpg
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| artist = [[Michael Ball]]
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{{Infobox song contest entry
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| released = {{start date|1992|4|13|df=y}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=[[Music Week]]|page=19|date=11 April 1992}}</ref>
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| length = 3:00
| label = [[Polydor Records|Polydor]]
| writer =
* Paul Davies
* Tony Ryan
* Victor Stratton
| producer = Mike Smith
| prev_title = It's Still You
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = If I Can Dream
| next_year = 1992
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| misc = {{Infobox song contest entry | embed=yes
| song = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} "One Step Out of Time"
| song = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} "One Step Out of Time"
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| year = 1992
| year = 1992
| country = United Kingdom
| country = United Kingdom
| artist =
| artist = [[Michael Ball]]
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| language = English
| language = English
| languages =
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| composer = Paul Davies,<br>Tony Ryan,<br>Victor Stratton
| composer = {{hlist|Paul Davies|Tony Ryan|Victor Stratton}}
| lyricist = Paul Davies,<br>Tony Ryan,<br>Victor Stratton
| lyricist = {{hlist|Paul Davies|Tony Ryan|Victor Stratton}}
| conductor = [[Ronnie Hazlehurst]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ronnie-hazlehurst-395793.html|title=Ronnie Hazlehurst|date=3 October 2007|publisher=independent.co.uk|accessdate=2009-05-18}}</ref>
| conductor = [[Ronnie Hazlehurst]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ronnie-hazlehurst-395793.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ronnie-hazlehurst-395793.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Ronnie Hazlehurst|date=3 October 2007|publisher=independent.co.uk|access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref>
| place = 2nd
| place = 2nd
| points = 139
| points = 139
| lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1992uk from Diggiloo Thrush]
| lyrics =
| clip = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpegoU6Reh4 from YouTube]
| clip =
| prev = A Message to Your Heart
| prev = A Message to Your Heart
| prev_link = A Message to Your Heart
| prev_link = A Message to Your Heart
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| next_link = Better the Devil You Know (Sonia song)
| next_link = Better the Devil You Know (Sonia song)
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'''"One Step Out of Time"''', written and composed by Paul Davies, Tony Ryan, and Victor Stratton, was the [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest|United Kingdom's entry]] at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1992]], performed by [[Michael Ball (singer)|Michael Ball]].
"'''One Step Out of Time'''", written and composed by Paul Davies, Tony Ryan, and Victor Stratton, was the {{esccnty|United Kingdom|y=1992}}'s entry at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1992]], performed by [[Michael Ball]].


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The song was included on Ball's [[Michael Ball (album)|1992 self-titled debut album]] as well as the album ''Past and Present'', which was released on 9 March 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelball.co.uk/news/|title=MICHAEL'S NEW ALBUM PAST AND PRESENT - THE VERY BEST OF MICHAEL BALL RELEASED 9 MARCH 2009|access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref>
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After the disappointing result [[Samantha Womack|Samantha Janus]] received on behalf of the United Kingdom at Rome in 1991, the UK national final, ''[[A Song for Europe]]'', was retooled. Reverting to the selection process which decided the entries from 1964 to 1975, a singer was picked internally by the BBC, and the public would vote on which song would go with them to the Eurovision finals. Michael Ball sang eight songs on ''[[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992|A Song for Europe 1992]]'', and "One Step Out of Time," performed seventh, emerged as the winner by an overwhelming margin (over 60,000 [[televoting|telephone votes]] separated the first and second place finishers).


==Background==
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At [[Malmö]], the song was performed sixteenth on the night, after [[Austria]]'s [[Tony Wegas]] with "[[Zusammen geh'n]]", and before [[Ireland]]'s [[Linda Martin]] with "[[Why Me? (Linda Martin song)|Why Me?]]" At the end of judging that evening, "One Step Out of Time" took the second-place slot with 139 points, it had been the pre-contest favourite. Belgium, Austria, Denmark and Germany awarded the UK their 12 points that evening. Despite losing by 16 points to Ireland's entry "Why Me?",<ref name="eurovision.tv">{{cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=308#event_info_308|title=Eurovision Song Contest 1992|publisher=eurovision.tv|accessdate=2009-05-18}}</ref> the UK received more 12 point designations than Ireland (four to three). This would be the third of four second-place finishes the UK had placed between 1988 and 1993.
===Composition===
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The song is a mid-tempo ballad, relating the singer's comfort with being "one step out of time" in relation to rejecting the reality around him, instead pining after his former lover. Not accepting that his relationship is over, and spurning the disapproval of his friends, he wishes to put "his love on the line" one more time, imploring his former lover to just let him know what he had done wrong.


===Selection process===
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The song was a mid-tempo ballad, relating the singer's comfort with being "one step out of time" in relation to rejecting the reality around him, instead pining after his former lover. Not accepting that his relationship is over, and spurning the disapproval of his friends, he wishes to put "his love on the line" one more time, imploring his former lover to just let him know what he had done wrong.
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After the disappointing result [[Samantha Womack|Samantha Janus]] received on behalf of the United Kingdom at {{escyr|1991||Rome 1991}}, the UK national final, ''[[A Song for Europe]]'', was retooled. Reverting to the selection process which decided the entries from 1964 to 1975, a singer was picked internally by the [[BBC]], and the public would vote on which song would go with them to the Eurovision finals. Ball sang eight songs on ''A Song for Europe 1992'', and "One Step Out of Time", performed seventh, emerged as the winner by an overwhelming margin (over 60,000 [[televoting|telephone votes]] separated the first and second-place finishers).{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}}


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==At Eurovision==
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The song was included on the album ''[[Past and Present (album)|Past and Present]]'' which was released on 9 March 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelball.co.uk/news/|title=MICHAEL'S NEW ALBUM PAST AND PRESENT - THE VERY BEST OF MICHAEL BALL RELEASED 9 MARCH 2009|accessdate=2009-05-18}}</ref>
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At the contest, held in [[Malmö]], the song was performed sixteenth on the night, after {{esccnty|Austria|y=1992}}'s [[Tony Wegas]] with "[[Zusammen geh'n]]", and before {{esccnty|Ireland|y=1992}}'s [[Linda Martin]] with "[[Why Me? (Linda Martin song)|Why Me?]]". At the end of voting that evening, "One Step Out of Time", the pre-contest favourite, took the second-place slot with 139 points. {{esccnty|Belgium|y=1992}}, {{esccnty|Austria|y=1992}}, {{esccnty|Denmark|y=1992}} and {{esccnty|Germany|y=1992}} awarded the UK their 12 points that evening. Despite losing by 16 points to "Why Me?",<ref name="eurovision.tv">{{cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=308#event_info_308|title=Eurovision Song Contest 1992|publisher=eurovision.tv|access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref> the UK received more 12 point designations than Ireland (four to three). This would be the third of four second-place finishes the UK had placed between 1988 and 1993.


==Charts==
Before Eurovision, the song débuted and peaked at #20 on the [[UK Singles Chart]], and stayed in the chart for 7 weeks .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=19747|title=One Step Out Of Time|publisher=chartstats.com|accessdate=2009-05-18}}</ref>
Before Eurovision, the song debuted and peaked at No. 20 on the [[UK Singles Chart]], and stayed in the chart for seven weeks.<ref name="uk"/>

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!Chart (1992)
!Peak<br/>position
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|[[UK Singles]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref name="uk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uk-s-highest-charting-eurovision-stars-revealed-__3038/|title=The UK's highest charting Eurovision stars revealed!|access-date=10 May 2015}}</ref>
|align="center"|20
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==References==
==References==
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{{Reflist}}


==External links==
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* [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1992uk Lyrics from Diggiloo Thrush]
{{succession box |
before="[[A Message to Your Heart]]"<br>by [[Samantha Janus]]|
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title=[[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest]] |
years=[[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992|1992]] |
after="[[Better the Devil You Know (Sonia song)|Better the Devil You Know]]"<br>by [[Sonia (singer)|Sonia]] |
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{{Eurovision Song Contest 1992}}
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[[Category:1992 singles]]
[[Category:Michael Ball songs]]
[[Category:Eurovision songs of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Eurovision songs of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Eurovision songs of 1992]]
[[Category:Eurovision songs of 1992]]
[[Category:1992 in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:1992 in British music]]
[[Category:1992 singles]]
[[Category:Polydor Records singles]]
[[Category:1992 songs]]

Latest revision as of 21:17, 4 September 2022

"One Step Out of Time"
Single by Michael Ball
Released13 April 1992 (1992-04-13)[1]
Length3:00
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)
  • Paul Davies
  • Tony Ryan
  • Victor Stratton
Producer(s)Mike Smith
Michael Ball singles chronology
"It's Still You"
(1991) 		"One Step Out of Time"
(1992) 		"If I Can Dream"
(1992)
Eurovision Song Contest 1992 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Language
English
Composer(s)
  • Paul Davies
  • Tony Ryan
  • Victor Stratton
Lyricist(s)
  • Paul Davies
  • Tony Ryan
  • Victor Stratton
Conductor
Finals performance
Final result
2nd
Final points
139
Entry chronology
◄ "A Message to Your Heart" (1991)
"Better the Devil You Know" (1993) ►

"One Step Out of Time", written and composed by Paul Davies, Tony Ryan, and Victor Stratton, was the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, performed by Michael Ball.

The song was included on Ball's 1992 self-titled debut album as well as the album Past and Present, which was released on 9 March 2009.[3]

Background

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Composition

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The song is a mid-tempo ballad, relating the singer's comfort with being "one step out of time" in relation to rejecting the reality around him, instead pining after his former lover. Not accepting that his relationship is over, and spurning the disapproval of his friends, he wishes to put "his love on the line" one more time, imploring his former lover to just let him know what he had done wrong.

Selection process

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After the disappointing result Samantha Janus received on behalf of the United Kingdom at Rome 1991, the UK national final, A Song for Europe, was retooled. Reverting to the selection process which decided the entries from 1964 to 1975, a singer was picked internally by the BBC, and the public would vote on which song would go with them to the Eurovision finals. Ball sang eight songs on A Song for Europe 1992, and "One Step Out of Time", performed seventh, emerged as the winner by an overwhelming margin (over 60,000 telephone votes separated the first and second-place finishers).[citation needed]

At Eurovision

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At the contest, held in Malmö, the song was performed sixteenth on the night, after Austria's Tony Wegas with "Zusammen geh'n", and before Ireland's Linda Martin with "Why Me?". At the end of voting that evening, "One Step Out of Time", the pre-contest favourite, took the second-place slot with 139 points. Belgium, Austria, Denmark and Germany awarded the UK their 12 points that evening. Despite losing by 16 points to "Why Me?",[4] the UK received more 12 point designations than Ireland (four to three). This would be the third of four second-place finishes the UK had placed between 1988 and 1993.

Charts

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Before Eurovision, the song debuted and peaked at No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart, and stayed in the chart for seven weeks.[5]

Chart (1992) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[5] 20

References

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  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 11 April 1992. p. 19.
  2. ^ "Ronnie Hazlehurst". independent.co.uk. 3 October 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
  3. ^ "MICHAEL'S NEW ALBUM PAST AND PRESENT - THE VERY BEST OF MICHAEL BALL RELEASED 9 MARCH 2009". Retrieved 18 May 2009.
  4. ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1992". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
  5. ^ a b "The UK's highest charting Eurovision stars revealed!". Retrieved 10 May 2015.
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