Relight My Fire
Relight My Fire is a song by singer Dan Hartman from 1979. The cover version of Take That with singer Lulu reached number one on the UK charts.
Original version
Relight My Fire, written by Dan Hartman, appeared in 1979 as the successor to Dan Hartman's Instant Replay and was number one on the dance charts in the United States for six weeks . The instrumental version of the song was played at the Melodifestivalen in 2004 and 2005.
The version of Take That
On October 3, 1993, Take That released another version of the song with the singer Lulu, which was number one on the British singles charts for two weeks. It was ranked 18th in Germany. The piece was the band's second No. 1 hit and the singer Lulu's first success after her The Isley Brothers cover version Shout from 1964.
Laut.de found that Hartmann's original version "... rocks incomparably rough ...".
Other covers
- 1999: DJ Antoine (Visit Me)
- 2007: The Lollies (live version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marc Pendzich: From the cover version to the hit recycling: historical, economic and legal aspects of a central phenomenon in pop and rock music . ( Popular music and jazz in research, Vol. 11), LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8118-0
- ^ Justin Lewis: Gary Barlow - The Biography . John Blake Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78418-244-1
- ↑ Getting down to earth in old age: This foursome can still do everything. In: laut.de . ( laut.de [accessed on February 6, 2018]).