‘Playing with Fire’ by Paula Seling and Ovi (Romania 2010)

Countdown to Eurovision 2013: my all-time favourites

Clearly not tinkling each others' ivories

Perhaps not an all-time favourite, but still a fav, mainly, because... well, as gimmicks go, frankly, ‘a perspex double piano that lights up when you play the notes’ is up there.  Not to mention the pleather catsuit action, operatic interlude and be-busselled Romanian backing dancers.  And even though Paula is at least billion times out of Ovi's weak-chinned league, the two of them utterly commit to the notion that they are totally doing it. 



Probably tinkling each others' ivories

Not that they're the first to flirt through the medium of piano duets – check out this faintly political ditty from '77, when the UK was too poor to win and *allegedly* attempted self-sabotage with ivory tinkling duo Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran performing the lost ‘classic’ "Rock Bottom"  - pre-dating My Lovely Horse by 19 years, with this sure-fire, hilarious shocker, which was never going to win.  Rock Bottom?  It only went and came second.