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.

īurns claimed the song was 'completed' by the time the producers were then chosen to work on it, stating that 'the record companies don't trust a band to go into the studio without a producer'. So I had those two, Van Dross and Little Nell and – bingo! – done deal.ĭesiring to move on from the sound of the band's debut studio album, Sophisticated Boom Boom (1984), Pete Burns wanted 'You Spin Me Round' to be produced by the then little-known production team Stock Aitken Waterman, in the Hi-NRG style of their 1984 UK hits ' You Think You're a Man' by Divine, and ' Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)' by Hazell Dean. And there was another record, by Little Nell, called 'See You 'Round Like a Record'. I don't want to do Luther Vandross's song, but I can still sing the same pattern over it. It's like do this, do this, do this – and suddenly it hits. I'm trying to structure the music and I know what I want. I didn't sit and study the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song and it locked. 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. How did I write 'Spin Me'? I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love'. 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 as the nation's 17th favourite 1980s number-one in a poll for ITV.ĭead or Alive's lead vocalist Pete Burns stated in his autobiography that he composed 'You Spin Me Round' by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new: 11 on 17 August of that year, becoming their highest charting single there.

On the US Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No. It was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. 1 in the UK in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there.

Released as a single in November 1984, it reached No. ' You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)' is a song by English pop band Dead or Alive, featured on their second studio album, Youthquake (1985).

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