Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
| Dancing With Tears in my Eyes | |
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| Ultravox | |
| publication | May 4th 1984 |
| length | 4:03 |
| Genre (s) | New wave , synth pop |
| Author (s) | Midge Ure , Billy Currie , Warren Cann, Chris Cross |
| album | Lament |
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Dancing with Tears in My Eyes is a 1984 Ultravox song written by Midge Ure , Billy Currie , Chris Cross, and Warren Cann. The song was released on May 4, 1984 as the second single from the album Lament .
history
The song deals with the question of what one would do in the last minutes of one's remaining life in the event of a nuclear disaster. The text provides one possible answer that one is going home and spending the last few minutes with a loved one. The German translation of the title "Dancing with tears in my eyes" is only one aspect of it. It is about the realization that your own life will inevitably come to an end and that you have to deal with your own death and that it moves you to tears.
Currie composed the melody and chord structure in 1983, influenced by the music of Michael Rother , in his apartment near Notting Hill Gate . The song was recorded at Midge Ures Musicfest Studios in Chiswick , southwest London , and produced by the band themselves. The single was released on May 4, 1984 by Chrysalis Records . In Belgium, the synth pop / new wave song became a number one hit .
The maxi single was released in three different versions: with a conventional record cover, with a gatefold cover and as a transparent vinyl with gatefold cover. All versions had the same catalog number. The piano ballad Building is included on the B-side .
Music video
The script was written by Ure and Cross, who also directed the video. In the video the band members play in different roles; Ure plays the main character, Currie and Cross can be seen as scientists, Cann plays a uniformed security guard and a priest. The storylines in the video are cut according to the verses and refrains. In the beginning, the core of a nuclear power plant overheats and an explosion is inevitable. During the first verse, Midge Ure drives home unsuspecting. In the second refrain, panic breaks out in the streets as information spreads that a nuclear explosion is imminent, and Ure continues on foot home. When he gets home, he spends the time before the explosion with his partner. The explosion occurs at the beginning of the guitar solo. The video ends with celluloid footage of family events that begin to melt during the screening.
Cover versions
- 1995: Cabballero
- 1999: Dreamscape
- 1999: Freedom Call
- 2000: Sportfreunde Stiller feat. Readymade
- 2004: Novaspace
- 2005: The Poodles
- 2007: Avantasia
- 2009: Velvet
Quotes in film and television
In addition to other songs from the 1980s, Dancing with Tears in My Eyes was in the 2010 television film Back to Happiness and in the episode Bei Kuscheln Mord of the television series The Last Bull .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / CH / UK /, accessed October 17, 2014.
- ^ Robin Eggar: Midge Ure, If I Was ... The Autobiography . Virgin Books, 2005, ISBN 0-7535-1077-4 (British English, 288 pages). , P. 125
- ↑ Billy Currie: Billy Currie Solo Albums. In: billycurrie.com. Retrieved November 8, 2011 (Notes on Keys and the Fiddle 2001).
- ^ Robin Eggar: Midge Ure, If I Was ... The Autobiography . Virgin Books, 2005, ISBN 0-7535-1077-4 (British English, 288 pages). , P. 286
