[citation needed] Four of his songs have won the UK selection contest with his debut attempt, "Let Me Be The One" by The Shadows, doing best at Eurovision, finishing in second place at the final in Stockholm, Sweden in 1975.
[2] His second song to go on to the Eurovision final, which he wrote in collaboration with Graham Sacher, "Love Games" by Belle and the Devotions,[3] caused a storm of controversy when it was booed from the stage in Luxembourg.
[4] In addition, Curtis has twice sung his own compositions in the UK national competition, "No Matter How I Try" (1982), and as leader of Duke and the Aces in 1980, performing "Love Is Alive".
[citation needed] Curtis was married to singer Ronnie France, who herself performed one of her husband's compositions in the 1978 UK final, "Lonely Nights".
[8] In 1990, Curtis joined with fellow songwriters Martin Lee and David Kane, to compose a musical based on The Butterfly Children books by Angela and Pat Mills.