Flesh for Fantasy
| Flesh for Fantasy | |
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| Billy Idol | |
| publication | Album: November 10, 1983 Single: September 13, 1984 |
| length | 3:47 (Album, Single) Maxisingles : 7:00 ( Below the Belt Mix ) |
| Genre (s) | Rock , new wave |
| Author (s) | Billy Idol, Steve Stevens |
| Producer (s) | Keith Forsey |
| Label | Chrysalis Records |
| album | Rebel Yell |
| Cover versions | |
| 2002 | Mega heart |
| 2005 | Nu Pagadi |
Flesh for Fantasy is a 1983 song by British rock musician Billy Idol that he wrote with guitarist Steve Stevens . It first appeared in November 1983 on Idol's album Rebel Yell and was released as the third single on September 13, 1984 .
background
Idol and his guitarist Steve Stevens had worked on a song idea, the title of which was inspired by the title Idol after the 1943 film Flesh and Fantasy (German title: The second face ) with Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson . At the time it was still a quick rock and roll song. Idol was not convinced of the value of their idea, it lacked a solid basis to complete a full-fledged song. Keith Forsey, who worked with Idol again as a producer , saw potential, however.
The musicians tried a different, slower, syncopated groove , which did not yet fit, and stopped working on the song because they were working on several ideas at the same time. Flesh for Fantasy was later completed at Electric Lady Studios , keeping the punk chorus, but singing the verses in a soulful way.
reception
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Flesh for Fantasy was released as the third single from the album Rebel Yell, released on November 10, 1983 . The B-side was Blue Highway in Europe and The Dead Next Door in the USA . The maxi single, released on the same day, contained a 7:00 minute long and by Gary Langan , Below the Belt Mix titled remix of the song, as well as the single version of the song and the song Blue Highway.
The single had the greatest success in Germany , where it reached number 11 in the music charts . In the USA it reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 , in Great Britain it only reached number 54. On December 8, 1984, Billy Idol performed the song on Thommy's Pop Show on ZDF in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle in front of a worldwide television audience.
The song has been re-recorded as a cover version by Megaherz (2002) and Nu Pagadi (2005).
Web links
- Flesh for Fantasy at Discogs
- Flesh for Fantasy on YouTube , accessed July 8, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ release date LP
- ↑ Billy Idol - Flesh for Fantasy , hitparade.ch
- ↑ a b Billy Idol: Dancing With Myself ; Autobiography, Simon & Schuster 2014, ISBN 978-1-4516-2850-0 , page 180
- ↑ Billy Idol: Dancing With Myself ; Autobiography, Simon & Schuster 2014, ISBN 978-1-4516-2850-0 , page 185
- ↑ Charts UK Charts US Charts DE
- ↑ Thommy's Pop Show , truckgeier.de
- ↑ Billy Idol - Flesh for Fantasy , December 8, 1984