Album 2010 5 Songs. Available with an Apple Music subscription. Nevertheless, I still like it, and sometimes when I'm jokingly making a pickup line, I'll say to a friend, 'You spin me right round like a record, baby!' A couple of my friends and I used to dance to it in the dorms in college.
. ' You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)' is a song by British band on their album. Released as a single in 1984, it reached no. 1 in the UK in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the first UK no. 1 hit by the production trio. On the US, it peaked at no.
11 on 17 August of that year. In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th favourite in a poll for. Musician and actor described the song as 'one of the best white dance records of all time'. The video, which features a, waving gold flags and an evocation of the six-armed, was directed. Contents. Background and composition Dead or Alive's vocalist stated in his autobiography that he composed 'You Spin Me Round' by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new: How did I write 'Spin Me'?
I listened to 's 'I Wanted Your Love'. It's not the same chord structure, but then that's the way I make music – I hear something and I sing another tune over it. I didn't sit and study the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song and it locked. I'm trying to structure the music and I know what I want. It's like do this, do this, do this - and suddenly it hits. I don't want to do Luther Vandross's song, but I can still sing the same pattern over it. And there was another record, by, called 'See You 'Round Like A Record'.
So I had those two, Van Dross sic and Little Nell and – bingo! — Pete Burns, Freak Unique (2007) According to Burns, the record company was unenthusiastic about 'You Spin Me Round', to such an extent that Burns had to take out a £2,500 loan to record it, then once it had been recorded 'the record company said it was awful. It was unanimous – it was awful, it was rubbish.' Burns stated that the band had to fund production of the song's video themselves. The strings were based on 's classical piece '. Interviewed for 's The Reunion: The Hit Factory, in April 2015, Burns said that the confrontational attitude of the producers was met with an equally confrontational attitude from the band and that this led to 'quite a bad vibe' for the entirety of the studio time, describing the experience as 'a time of intense friction'.
Re-releases A remix version of 'You Spin Me Round' was released in 2003 at the same time Dead or Alive's greatest hits album Evolution was released. The song reached no. The original 1984 recording was re-released on 30 January 2006 because of lead singer Pete Burns's controversial time as a contestant on television series and reached no. Earlier remixes were in 1996 and 1997 (some are included on the US, European and Australian releases of ). In 1999 these mixes were issued in the US as a 2-CD set. The first disc held seven mixes of 'You Spin Me Round' while disc two has five mixes of 'Sex Drive'.
In 2000, new mixes appeared on and in 2001, on. No videos were made for these.
Chart performance The song has been re-released three times since its original release in 1984. Each time of its release, it achieved success, but failed to match the success of the original.
However, after lead-singer Pete Burns's appearance on, the single was re-released and managed a Top 5 peak on the UK Singles Chart in 2006. According to Burns, comprised over 70% of the original sales of You Spin Me Round, and because these were regarded by the record label as promotional tools rather than sales, the band had to threaten legal action against the label before they received the royalties on them. Jessica Simpson version 's version of the song was released as a from her fifth studio album in 2006. Her version of the song failed to break into the (though it did reach no. Simpson's version has new lyrics and only preserves the chorus of the song. Chart (2007) Peak position US Billboard 20 US Billboard 95 Other cover versions and have also done remixes. Danzel's version peaked at no.
32 in Belgium. Featuring 's 2009 single ' interpolates elements of the song. Barron, Lee (2010). 'Camp Transitions: Genre Adaptation and the Hi-NRG/Dance Cover Version'.
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