(later covered by and a No. 4 hit for Madness, for which Siffre himself appeared in the video); "Crying Laughing Loving Lying" (No. 11, 1972); and "Watch Me" (No. 29, 1972). In 1978, Siffre took part in the heats to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. He performed his own composition "Solid Love", which placed fifth of the twelve songs up for consideration at the A Song for Europe contest. Additionally, he co-wrote the song "We Got It Bad" performed by Bob James, which came tenth. Siffre came out of self-imposed retirement from music in 1985, when he saw a television film from Apartheid South Africa showing a white soldier shooting at black children. He wrote "(Something Inside) So Strong" (No. 4, 1987) which he also performed on Top of the Pops, and released four more albums between 1988 and 1998. Multiple parts of Siffre's 1975 track "I Got The..." were sampled in popular hip hop songs in the 1990s, including in the 1999 Eminem single "My Name Is". As a result of the song's newfound fame, it was finally released as a single in 2006. Siffre's 1972 track "My Song", the tenth track on his album Crying Laughing Loving Lying, was sampled by rapper Kanye West on the song "I Wonder" on his third album Graduation. In February 2022, the BBC broadcast Labi Siffre: This Is My Song, as part of the Imagine series, in which Alan Yentob presented a film exploring Siffre's life and work. Personal life Siffre met his partner Peter Lloyd in July 1964 and they were together for 48 years. They entered into a civil partnership in 2005, as soon as it was legally possible in the UK. From the mid-1990s until Lloyd's death in 2013 he and Siffre lived in a ménage à trois with Rudolf van Baardwijk in Crickhowell, South Wales. Van Baardwijk died in 2015. Siffre now lives in Spain. In 2014, Siffre appeared on the BBC Radio 4 series Great Lives, championing the life of British author Arthur Ransome. Siffre said that Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books had taught him responsibility for his own actions and also a morality that has influenced and shaped him throughout his life. Discography Studio albums Live albums The Last Songs (Re-mastered) (2006) Compilation albums The Best of Labi Siffre (1995) It Must Be Love (The Best of Labi Siffre) (2016) Gold (2019) Singles