The first heat of Euro Showbox was held on 8 November 2008 , and featured a total of seven songs . The first song was the operatic ballad " Lament " , performed by Ludwig Galea along with Fidela tal-Bambinu . Galea had previously represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 . The second song was " I 'm In Heaven " , performed by Dominic Cini . It began as a ballad , but transformed into a swing song . The third song , " Tonight at the Opera " by the Classic Rebels , was a schlager song , written by the past Eurovision composers Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger ( as " John O'Flynn " ) . The fourth song was Klinsmann with the pop-rock song " Rock and Rise " . The fifth song was Talitha Dimech 's " Earth and Sky " , which begins as a ballad before becoming more up-tempo . The sixth song was the mid-tempo ballad " One Million Ways " by Rosman Pace , and the final song was " Falling in Love " by Francesca Borg , a ballad which features Borg alone in a black dress
Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009