The voting consisted of 14 Regional Juries , made up of member of the public , located in Belfast , Bristol , Aberdeen , Bangor , Leeds , London , Birmingham , Cardiff , Glasgow , Norwich , Newcastle , Manchester , Plymouth and Southampton . The winning song was '' Rock Bottom '' , written , composed and performed by Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran . The song says that when people are in a bad situation they should work to solve problems and not be pessimistic about tragedies . Apparently it represents the situation at the time . This was reflected in the unrest surrounding the 1977 Song for Europe and the subsequent Eurovision Song Contest , which was due to take place in Wembley on April 2nd . Due to the cameramen 's industrial action that spread throughout the BBC , many live broadcasts were affected in the coming weeks and the 1977 Eurovision final was cancelled . On 30 March the strike was resolved and the contest was rescheduled for 7 May . At the Eurovision final , the UK entry was performed ninth in the running order and finished in 2nd place , a record 10th British entry to finish 2nd . The winning song reached No. 19 in the UK singles chart , the last chart hit for de Paul , her first in two years . A German version of the song was released as '' Für Immer '' . De Paul and Moran did release one further single together , but it failed to chart . Pete Murray provided the television commentary on BBC 1 and Terry Wogan provided the radio commentary on BBC Radio 2 , this would be Wogan 's final time he provided the contests commentary for radio , the following year he began regularly presenting the television coverage . The UK spokesperson was Colin Berry , who would present the UK results for a further 25 editions
Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1977
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977