winner, 1967
Sandie Shaw
Sandie Shaw represented the United Kingdom at Eurovision 1967 in Vienna with “Puppet on a String”, and won.
- who
- English pop singer
- born
- 26 February 1947, Dagenham, United Kingdom
- contest
- 1967
- win
- 1967
- music
- pop
- active
- 1964 to 2013
- record labels
- Pye Records, Reprise Records, Polydor Records, Virgin Records
- studied at
- University of London
- sang for
- United Kingdom
Biography
Sandie Shaw is an English pop singer, now retired, who had three number one singles in the United Kingdom: “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” in 1964, “Long Live Love” in 1965 and “Puppet on a String” in 1967. The last of them won the contest in Vienna, the first British song to do so.
Often described as “the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s”, Shaw returned to the British Top 40 in 1984 with a cover of the Smiths’ “Hand in Glove”, and retired from music in 2013.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “Sandie Shaw”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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1967 Vienna
“Puppet on a String”
Winner Won the contest with 47 points, ahead of 16 other songs.
- Sung in
- English
- Written by
- Phil Coulter, Bill Martin
- Conductor
- Kenny Woodman
- Running order
- 11th of 17
- Age on the night
- 20
Play: Sandie Shaw — “Puppet on a String”, the winning performance at Eurovision 1967 hear it YouTube the contest’s channel Spotify search Apple Music search
The story of Eurovision 1967: Mirrors, a muddled scoreboard and Britain's first win
Away from Eurovision
Awards
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
As recorded on Wikidata, which is rarely the whole list.
In our contest stories
What we wrote about Sandie Shaw, year by year. Follow a link for the rest of that night.
- 1967 The result
It hardly mattered who voted last. Sandie Shaw's "Puppet on a String" won with 47 votes, more than twice as many as the runner-up. Three separate juries gave it seven of their ten votes. It was the United Kingdom's first victory, after five second places.
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