"Come Back" is a single released by Welsh pop singer Jessica Garlick which was the United Kingdom entry for 2002 Eurovision Song Contest.
[1] After "Come Back" had been selected as one of the eight Song for Europe 2002 finalists, the BBC's Eurovision executive producer Kevin Bishop contacted the station's Music & Media Partnership managing director Rick Blaskey who'd recall Bishop advising him that "Come Back" "was written by a pilot from Birmingham who doesn't know anyone in the business and needs some help".
Blaskey said of "Come Back": "my favourite song in the competition, so the next day I met the writer and contacted [Atomic Kitten producers] Bill Padley and Jeremy Godfrey.
Blaskey had the idea of having a Pop Idol contestant perform the song and on learning that Jessica Garlick had stated a longtime ambition to compete at Eurovision she was recruited:[2] Garlick would recall: It... all happened so quickly, I got the phone call on Monday [January 21, 2002] and recorded the song on Wednesday.
[4] On the night of the Eurovision competition, held on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia, "Come Back" was performed second, following Cyprus' One with "Gimme" and preceding Austria's Manuel Ortega with "Say a Word".