You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

The song

"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by the English pop band Dead or Alive. It was released on 5 November 1984, as the lead single from their second studio album, Youthquake (1985). The song reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the first UK No. 1 hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. On the US Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No. 11 on 17 August of that year, becoming their highest-charting single there. The song also reached No. 1 in Ireland and in Canada, while in Australia it peaked at No. 3 and it charted highly in numerous European countries. Its music video was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton. In 2003, Q ranked the song at number 981 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever", in 2005 Blender listed it at number 289 on its ranking of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born", and in 2015 it was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.

Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive were an English pop band formed in 1979 in Liverpool by Pete Burns (vocals). After several unsuccessful indie singles, they signed to Epic Records in 1983, achieving their first chart placement with "Misty Circles" from their first album Sophisticated Boom Boom (1984). At that time, the band consisted of Burns, Steve Coy (drums), Tim Lever (keyboards), Mike Percy (bass), and Wayne Hussey (guitar). Burns and Coy remained the core of the band for the rest of its history, with Hussey leaving in 1984, while Lever and Percy both left in 1988.

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