She Drives Me Crazy

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Chart positions
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Singles
She Drives Me Crazy
  DE 2 01/30/1989 (14 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/01/1989 (18 weeks)
  CH 3 02/05/1989 (18 weeks)
  UK 5 07/01/1989 (13 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/28/1989 (23 weeks)

She Drives Me Crazy is a 1989 Fine Young Cannibals song written by Roland Gift and David Steele . It appeared on the album The Raw & the Cooked .

history

The drums with a small drum in the song were created through separate recordings of the drum rhythms. A loudspeaker was placed above the snare drum and a microphone below it.

Released on January 1, 1989, the pop rock song became a number one hit in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Austria and Spain .

In the episode Whoever Laughs Last ... by Columbo you could hear the song.

Music video

Two music videos were released for the song, one produced by Philippe Decouflé and the other by Pedro Romhanyi. In the first, the clip of New Orders True Faith served as a model and also contains elaborate choreographies and actors in costumes. So z. B. as pillows, as Beetlejuice and others also wear the same costumes, just with sunglasses. You can also see two karate fighters ramming their heads. This video received many nominations, including Best Video , at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989.

Cover versions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Chart placements: Chartsurfer.de , accessed on June 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Dan Daley: Fine Young Cannibals' She Drives Me Crazy . March 1, 2001. Archived from the original on February 10, 2005. Retrieved July 5, 2007.
  3. ^ Philippe Decouflé ( Memento of September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Compagnie DCA, September 15, 2012
  4. She Drives Me Crazy (version 1). mvdbase.com
  5. She Drives Me Crazy (version 2). mvdbase.com