Send Me an Angel (real-life song)

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Send me an angel
Real life
publication May 1983 (Australia), November 1983 (USA)
length 3:53
Genre (s) Synth pop , new wave
Author (s) David Sterry, Richard Zatorski
album Heartland

Send Me an Angel is a 1983 song by Australian band Real Life and their debut single. It also appeared on the Heartland album .

music

Musically, it is a fast synth-pop song with dominant keyboard arrangements and a synthesizer drum kit. A keyboard and an electric guitar solo can also be heard.

Publication and reception

Send Me an Angel first appeared in Australia in May 1983. In November 1983 there was a release in the United States and on the band's debut album, Heartland . The song made it to number one in the German and New Zealand charts in 1984 , number two in Switzerland , number ninth in Austria , the top 10 in Australia and number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the USA . In the German annual charts of 1984, the song reached number seven.

The song's major chart success in the US came in the summer of 1989, when an updated version entitled Send Me an Angel '89 surpassed the original 1983 version and reached number 26.

The song is also played on the in-game radio station in the 2013 PC / Xbox One / PS4 versions of the video game Grand Theft Auto V.

Playlists

7 "single (WRS-001)
  1. Send Me an Angel - 3:53
  2. Like a Gun - 3:16
12 "single
  1. Send Me an Angel (Extended Dance Mix) - 5:40
  2. Send Me an Angel - 3:53
  3. Like a Gun - 3:14
12 "maxi single
  1. Send Me An Angel (Extended Mix) - 5:43
  2. Send Me An Angel - 3:53
  3. Burning Blue - 4:43

Music video

There are three music video versions. Everyone plays with medieval elements. The original music video shows the musicians in a forest. A princess is being pursued by a rider who turns into a werewolf again and again . The Australian version of Send Me an Angel '89 , however, was shot from scratch; next to the band performing the song in a historic building, a young woman dressed in white can be seen in a castle. For the US market, however, the original version was revised for the re-release and only the former keyboardist Richard Zatorski was edited out of it.

Cover versions

Cover versions exist among others by the following artists:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joel Whitburn : The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits , 9th. Edition, Billboard Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8230-8554-5 .
  2. ↑ https://hitparade.ch/song/Real-Life/Send-Me-An-Angel-1101
  3. ↑ Christopher Hooton: GTA 5 PS4 / Xbox One gets new songs from Lorde, Kendrick Lamar, Danny Brown and more . In: The Independent , November 18, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2017. 
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R6WIbx8ysE
  5. ↑ https://hitparade.ch/song/Thomas-Anders/Heisskalter-Engel-28433
  6. ↑ Network - Send Me an Angel . Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Pobi - Send Me an Angel . Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ Atrocity - Werk 80 Festival Edition . AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  9. ↑ Jason Anderson: Zeromancer - Eurotrash . Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  10. ↑ Johnny Loftus: Thrice - If We Could Only See Us Now . Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  11. ↑ Deadstar Assembly - Deadstar Assembly . Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  12. ↑ The Quakes - Psyops . Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  13. ↑ Dirty on Purpose - Like Bees . Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  14. ↑ NES Me An Angel from Retrocovered by Inverse Phase . Inverse phase. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  15. ↑ The Struggle by XO Stereo (Another Century Records) . September 12, 2015. Accessed February 8, 2017.
  16. ↑ Chad Childers: Highly Suspect, 'The Boy Who Died Wolf' - Album Review . November 18, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  17. ↑ Out Of Line Music: Blutengel - Send Me An Angel (Music Video). May 3, 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 .