B-side "Silent Running" Genre Rock Label Polydor | Released 1979 Length 5:45 Writer(s) Godley & Creme | |
"An Englishman in New York" is a single released by Godley & Creme, from their 1979 album Freeze Frame. It is memorable for an innovative self-produced music video which involved Godley singing in front of Creme, as Creme conducted mannequins dressed up as members of a 1930s big band orchestra, and for its chorus hook line, "Strange apparatus...".
It charted in Germany (no.25), the Netherlands (no.7) and Belgium (no.4).
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