<P> Phil Coulter originally wrote the song as "I Think I Love You", but was unsure of the lyrics and got together with Bill Martin (the same team that wrote "Puppet on a String"), who changed it to "Congratulations". It was recorded with session musicians who included Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones . </P> <P> The song was immediately popular in the UK and became a number one single . On the day of the contest, it was the favourite to win, so much so that the British press were posing the question: "What will come second to' Congratulations'?" </P> <P> During the voting, "Congratulations" was leading for much of the way until the penultimate vote when Germany gave Spain six points, putting them one point ahead of the United Kingdom . It finished second losing to Spain's entry "La, la, la" by just one point . But "Congratulations" went on to become a far more successful song and a huge hit throughout Europe . In 2008, documentary film - maker Montse Fernandez Vila claimed that the loss was the result of rigging of the Spanish vote by state television on behalf of the Francoist State . </P> <P> However José María Íñigo, the person that made such claims in the documentary quickly said that his words were taken out of context and said that the channel that produced the documentary, laSexta, who was the promoter of the Spanish representative that year, Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, had manipulated his words to help promote their candidate . He said: "if there had been such a manipulation, it would have been for a different artist who had been closer to the regime". </P>

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