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The Best of Heaven 17: Released: 21 September 1992; Label: Virgin — — — 1993 Higher and Higher – The Best of Heaven 17: Released: 8 March 1993; Label: Virgin; 31 129 — 1996 16 Classic Tracks: Released: 1996; Label: Boots, EMI; Re-release under a different title of the 1992 The Best of Heaven 17 — — — 2000 Heaven 17: Released ...
Towards the end of 1983, the band (under their B.E.F. guise and assisted by Greg Walsh) helped relaunch Tina Turner's career, producing, and providing backing vocals on her hit "Let's Stay Together", a cover of the Al Green song. 1984 saw the release of Heaven 17's third studio album, How Men Are, [9] which reached number 12 in the UK Albums ...
The compilation includes singles from Heaven 17's first four studio albums Penthouse and Pavement (1981), The Luxury Gap (1983), How Men Are (1984) and Pleasure One (1986), plus two new remixes that were released as singles: "Temptation" (Brothers in Rhythm Remix), which reached number four in the UK Singles Chart in 1992 [1] and "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" (Rapino Edit), which ...
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Allmusic cites the song as "a club hit that features Glenn Gregory's moody, dramatic lead above a percolating vocal and synth arrangement." [3] Band member Martyn Ware has acknowledged "Let Me Go" as Heaven 17's finest song: “There’s a certain sonata form to it as well where it builds and then it dies down towards the end. You end with the ...
Witty dance music with gormless backing chants and a piano that is everything that Shakatak isn't." Number One wrote: "Thankfully Heaven 17 have finally clicked and make dance records that you can actually dance to (unlike "Penthouse and Pavement"). Now their stylish sound is pure nourishment for the feet, as well as for the head and heart."
The Luxury Gap is the second studio album by English synth-pop band Heaven 17, released on 25 April 1983 by Virgin Records. [10] [11] It is the band's best-selling studio album, peaking at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart – eventually becoming the 17th best-selling album of the year – and being certified platinum (300,000 copies sold) by the BPI in 1984.
"Temptation" is a single by British band Heaven 17 featuring Carol Kenyon, originally released on 8 April 1983 by Virgin Records, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. [5] This was the second single to be taken from their second album, The Luxury Gap (1983), after "Let Me Go" in November 1982.