Neutron Dance

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Neutron Dance
  DE 18th 04/22/1985 (11 weeks)
  AT 19th 05/01/1985 (8 weeks)
  CH 14th April 21, 1985 (8 weeks)
  UK 31 01/12/1985 (7 weeks)
  US 6th 11/24/1984 (23 weeks)

Neutron Dance is a 1984 Pointer Sisters song written by Allee Willis and Danny Sembello. It appeared on the album Break Out and is part of the soundtrack to the film Beverly Hills Cop - I'll definitely solve it .

history

It was released on December 30, 1984, on the Billboard Hot 100 it was the seventh and thus the last song by the Pointer Sisters to reach the top ten.

Neutron Dance appeared against the backdrop of the last phase of the Cold War in the 1980s, which is also reflected in the song: The government of the former Soviet Union misunderstood a message from the United States and therefore started a nuclear war .

In the episode Never Scouts of Family Guy dancing an ancestor of Peter Griffin a dance that is named after the song. It was also heard in the episode My Father Bob Hope from Golden Girls .

Music video

In the music video, the Pointer Sisters make three employees of a cinema represents the beginning of the video the boss of cinema discusses with the Sisters some rules of cinema, after several visitors enter the cinema to see the film. Beverly Hills Cop - I lös the case on to watch any case, of which one then sees some scenes. Later the Pointer Sisters go dancing in the projection room in which the film is shown and animate the audience in front of the screen.

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. Sources chart positions: DE AT CH UK US