Rikki Peebles was favourite to win in 1987, singing about an extra terrestrial spotted over the M8.
Many of Eurovision's performances have been described as out of this world.But Scots singer-songwriter Rikki Peebles was on the trend decades before.
"I looked up and I saw this massive light in the sky but it moved from my left, right across my vision to the right and then slowly disappeared. "Then they contacted me and said the song was through to the last 60. It's strange but I knew right then that this song would go the full road, I could feel it."Peebles walked on the stage at the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels just after discovering he was joint favourite to win - along with the Irish entry sung by Johnny Logan."Eurovision then, I imagine, was on par with going to an Olympic Games," he said.
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