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1984 single by Dead or Alive

"You Spin Me Round (Similar a Record)"
Dead Or Alive Pete Burns.jpg
Unmarried by Expressionless or Alive
from the album Youthquake
B-side "Misty Circles"
Released 5 November 1984 (1984-11-05) [1]
Genre
  • Hi-NRG[2] [3]
  • synth-popular[iv] [five]
  • new wave[5]
Length
  • 3:19 (original)
  • 8:00 (Murder Mix)
  • 7:28 (Operation Mix)
Label Ballsy
Songwriter(s)
  • Pete Burns
  • Steve Coy
  • Wayne Hussey
  • Tim Lever
  • Mike Percy
Producer(south) Stock Aitken Waterman
Dead or Alive singles chronology
"That's the Way (I Similar It)"
(1984) 		"Y'all Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
(1984) 		"Lover Come Back to Me"
(1985)
Music video
"You Spin Me Round (Similar a Record)" on YouTube
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"You lot Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by British ring Dead or Live, featured on their 2d album, Youthquake (1985). Released equally a unmarried in November 1984, it reached No. ane in the UK in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the commencement U.k. number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio.[6] On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No. eleven on 17 August of that year.[7] In 2003, Q ranked the song at number 981 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever", Blender listed it at number 289 on its ranking of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" in 2005 and in 2015, it was voted by the British public every bit the nation's 17th favourite 1980s number-i in a poll for ITV.

The accompanying music video, which features a disco ball, waving gold flags and an evocation of the vi-armed Vishnu, was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton.

Background and composition [edit]

Expressionless or Alive'due south vocaliser Pete Burns stated in his autobiography that he composed "You Spin Me Round" by using 2 existing songs as inspiration for creating something new:

How did I write "Spin Me"? I listened to Luther Vandross'southward 'I Wanted Your Love'. Information technology's not the same chord structure, but so that's the way I make music – I hear something and I sing some other melody over it. I didn't sit and study the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song and it locked. [...] I'yard trying to structure the music and I know what I want. [...] It'due south similar exercise this, do this, practise this - and suddenly it hits. I don't want to do Luther Vandross's song, just I can still sing the same blueprint over it. And there was another tape, by Little Nell, called "Meet Y'all 'Round Like A Tape". [...] So I had those two, Van Dross [sic] and Petty Nell and – bingo! – done deal.

—Pete Burns, Freak Unique (2007)

Desiring to motility on from the sound of the band's first album, Sophisticated Boom Boom, Pete Burns wanted "You lot Spin Me Circular" to be produced by the then little-known production squad Stock Aitken Waterman, in the Hi-NRG way of their 1984 United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland hits "You Recall You're a Man" past Divine, and "Whatever I Practice (Wherever I Go)" by Hazell Dean.[6]

Burns claimed the song was "completed" by the time the producers were then chosen to work on information technology, stating that "the record companies don't trust a band to become into the studio without a producer".[8] Co-ordinate to Burns, the tape company was unenthusiastic well-nigh "You Spin Me Round" to such an extent that Burns had to accept out a £2,500 loan to tape it. Subsequently it was recorded, he recalled, "the record company said it was awful" and the band had to fund production of the song's video themselves.[9]

Interviewed for BBC Radio 4'due south The Reunion: The Hit Factory, in Apr 2015, Burns said that a confrontational mental attitude betwixt the producers and band led to "quite a bad vibe" during production and "a time of intense friction".[10] Engineer Phil Harding, who mixed the rails, said tensions were running and then high between the band members and producers Mike Stock and Matt Aitken during mixing, that it virtually escalated to violence.[vi] Stock has disputed the seriousness of studio tensions, alleging that Burns, Harding and Pete Waterman accept all "exaggerated" what happened in their recounting of events.[eleven]

"You Spin Me Circular (Similar a Record)" is written in the key of F♯ minor[12]

Re-releases [edit]

A remix version of "You Spin Me Round" was released in 2003 at the same time Dead or Alive'south greatest hits album Evolution was released. The vocal reached no. 23 in the UK Singles Chart. The original 1984 recording was re-released on 30 January 2006 considering of lead singer Pete Burns's controversial time as a contestant on television serial Glory Big Brother and reached no. 5.

Earlier remixes were in 1996 and 1997 (some are included on the Usa, European and Australian releases of Nukleopatra). In 1999 these mixes were issued in the US every bit a 2-CD set. The starting time disc held 7 mixes of "You Spin Me Round" while disc two has five mixes of "Sex Drive". In 2000, new mixes appeared on Fragile and in 2001, on Unbreakable: The Fragile Remixes. No videos were made for these.

Chart operation [edit]

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 friction match the success of the original. Withal, after lead-vocaliser Pete Burns'southward appearance on Celebrity Large Brother, the single was re-released and managed a Summit 5 peak on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart in 2006.

According to Burns, 12-inch singles 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 earlier they received the royalties on them.[13]

Impact and legacy [edit]

In 2003, British popular music mag Q ranked "You Spin Me Round (Similar a Record)" number 981 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".[14]

In 2005, Blender listed it at number 289 on its ranking of "Greatest Songs Since Y'all Were Born".[fifteen]

In 2015, it was voted by the British public as the nation'southward 17th favourite 1980s number-one in a poll for ITV.[16]

Subsequently the death of Burns in 2016, musician and actor Gary Kemp described the song as "one of the all-time white dance records of all time."[17]

In 2020, The Guardian ranked the song number five in their list of "The 100 Greatest United kingdom No 1s".[18]

In 2021, Classic Pop ranked information technology number-1 in their list of "Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs".[19]

Track listing [edit]

Charts [edit]

Dope version [edit]

"You Spin Me Round (Like a Tape)"
Single past Dope
from the anthology Felons and Revolutionaries
Released 2000
Length 2:43
Label Ballsy
Songwriter(s)
  • Pete Burns
  • Steve Coy
  • Wayne Hussey
  • Tim Lever
  • Mike Percy
Producer(southward)
  • Edsel Dope
  • John Travis
Dope singles chronology
"Everything Sucks"
(1999) 		"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
(2000) 		"Now or Never"
(2001)

Nu metal band Dope covered the song on their 1999 album Felons and Revolutionaries; the cover besides appeared on the soundtrack for the moving picture American Psycho.[65] This version reached no. 37 on the Hot Mainstream Stone Tracks chart.[66]

Track listing [edit]

No. Title Length
ane. "You Spin Me Circular (Like a Record)" 2:43

Charts [edit]

Jessica Simpson version [edit]

Jessica Simpson's version of the song was released every bit a promo single from her fifth studio album A Public Affair in 2006. Her version of the song failed to break into the Billboard Hot 100 (though it did achieve no. 20 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles). Simpson's version has new lyrics and but preserves the chorus of the song.

Charts [edit]

Other cover versions [edit]

In 2007, Danzel remixed "You Spin Me Round (Similar a Record)"; his version peaked at no. 32 in Kingdom of belgium.[71]

Flo Rida'south 2009 single "Right Round" featuring Kesha, interpolates elements of the song.[72] [73] [74]

In 2020, American industrial metal band 3Teeth released GUNS AKIMBO, a two rails prepare that included a cover version of "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". The song was previously featured in the 2022 action comedy film Guns Akimbo.[75]

Run into likewise [edit]

  • List of number-one singles of 1985 (Canada)
  • List of number-one singles of 1985 (Republic of ireland)
  • Listing of number-one hits of 1985 (Switzerland)
  • List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s

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