B-side "It's Only Love" Format 7" single, 12" maxi | Released 1986 Length 3:34 | |
Genre Rock & roll, rockabilly | ||
"Hold On Tight" was the third single from British singer Samantha Fox's 1986 debut album Touch Me.
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Song information
"Hold On Tight" is a classically styled rock and roll song. The late 1980s saw a renewed interest in retro-1950s pop culture, in part spurred on by the film Back to the Future. "Hold On Tight's" electric guitar and backbeat serve to evoke a 1950s rock and roll sound.
Music video
The music video reflects the song's rockabilly sensibilities by showing Samantha Fox in a diner sporting a ponytail, midriff-baring shirt, denim hot pants, and cowgirl boots. Soon after putting her song on the diner's jukebox she headed outside, this time wearing a fringe trimmed red leather dress. As she sings "Hold On Tight" Fox danced with greasers and youths in letterman jackets and poodle skirts, typical of 1950s fashion.
Track listings
- "Hold On Tight" (3:34)
- "It's Only Love" (3:36)
- "Hold On Tight (Extended Version)" (5:06)
- "Hold On Tight (Instrumental Version)" (3:36)
- "Touch Me (I Want Your Body) (Blue Mix)" (5:49)
- "It's Only Love" (3:34)