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{{Short description|1992 single by Michael Ball}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox song
| name = One Step Out of Time
| cover = One Step Out of Time.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Michael Ball]]
| album =
| released = {{start date|1992|4|13|df=y}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=[[Music Week]]|page=19|date=11 April 1992}}</ref>
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| length = 3:00
| label = [[Polydor Records|Polydor]]
| writer =
* Paul Davies
* Tony Ryan
* Victor Stratton
| producer = Mike Smith
| prev_title = It's Still You
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = If I Can Dream
| next_year = 1992
| misc = {{Infobox song contest entry | embed=yes
| song = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} "One Step Out of Time"
| image =
| caption =
| year = 1992
| country = United Kingdom
| artist = [[Michael Ball]]
| as =
| with =
| language = English
| languages =
| composer = {{hlist|Paul Davies|Tony Ryan|Victor Stratton}}
| lyricist = {{hlist|Paul Davies|Tony Ryan|Victor Stratton}}
| conductor = [[Ronnie Hazlehurst]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ronnie-hazlehurst-395793.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ronnie-hazlehurst-395793.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Ronnie Hazlehurst|date=3 October 2007|publisher=independent.co.uk|access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref>
| place = 2nd
| points = 139
| lyrics =
| clip =
| prev = A Message to Your Heart
| prev_link = A Message to Your Heart
| next = Better the Devil You Know
| next_link = Better the Devil You Know (Sonia song)
}}
}}
"'''One Step Out of Time'''", written and composed by Paul Davies, Tony Ryan, and Victor Stratton, was the {{esccnty|United Kingdom|y=1992}}'s entry at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1992]], performed by [[Michael Ball]].

The song was included on Ball's [[Michael Ball (album)|1992 self-titled debut album]] as well as the album ''Past and Present'', which was released on 9 March 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelball.co.uk/news/|title=MICHAEL'S NEW ALBUM PAST AND PRESENT - THE VERY BEST OF MICHAEL BALL RELEASED 9 MARCH 2009|access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref>

==Background==
===Composition===
It is a mid-tempo pop song, relating the singer's comfort with being "one step out of time" in relation to rejecting the reality around him, instead pining after his former lover. Not accepting that his relationship is over, and spurning the disapproval of his friends, he wishes to put "his love on the line" one more time, imploring his former lover to just let him know what he had done wrong.

===Selection process===
After the disappointing result [[Samantha Womack|Samantha Janus]] received on behalf of the United Kingdom at {{escyr|1991||Rome 1991}}, the UK national final, ''[[A Song for Europe]]'', was retooled. Reverting to the selection process which decided the entries from 1964 to 1975, a singer was picked internally by the [[BBC]], and the public would vote on which song would go with them to the Eurovision finals. Ball sang eight songs on ''A Song for Europe 1992'', and "One Step Out of Time", performed seventh, emerged as the winner by an overwhelming margin (over 60,000 [[televoting|telephone votes]] separated the first and second-place finishers).{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}}

==At Eurovision==
At the contest, held in [[Malmö]], the song was performed sixteenth on the night, after {{esccnty|Austria|y=1992}}'s [[Tony Wegas]] with "[[Zusammen geh'n]]", and before {{esccnty|Ireland|y=1992}}'s [[Linda Martin]] with "[[Why Me? (Linda Martin song)|Why Me?]]". At the end of voting that evening, "One Step Out of Time", the pre-contest favourite, took the second-place slot with 139 points. {{esccnty|Belgium|y=1992}}, {{esccnty|Austria|y=1992}}, {{esccnty|Denmark|y=1992}} and {{esccnty|Germany|y=1992}} awarded the UK their 12 points that evening. Despite losing by 16 points to "Why Me?",<ref name="eurovision.tv">{{cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=308#event_info_308|title=Eurovision Song Contest 1992|publisher=eurovision.tv|access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref> the UK received more times the 12 points than Ireland (four to three). This would be the third of four second-place finishes the UK had placed between 1988 and 1993.

==Charts==
Before Eurovision, the song debuted and peaked at No. 20 on the [[UK Singles Chart]], and stayed in the chart for seven weeks.<ref name="uk"/>

{|class="wikitable"
!Chart (1992)
!Peak<br/>position
|-
|[[UK Singles]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref name="uk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uk-s-highest-charting-eurovision-stars-revealed-__3038/|title=The UK's highest charting Eurovision stars revealed!|access-date=10 May 2015}}</ref>
|align="center"|20
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1992uk Lyrics from Diggiloo Thrush]

{{United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest}}
{{Eurovision Song Contest 1992}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1992 singles]]
[[Category:Michael Ball songs]]
[[Category:Eurovision songs of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Eurovision songs of 1992]]
[[Category:1992 in British music]]
[[Category:Polydor Records singles]]
[[Category:1992 songs]]

One Step Out of Time - Revision history

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