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Let Me Go (Heaven 17 song)

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Released
  
1982

Genre
  
New wave, synthpop

Label
  
Virgin Records

Format
  
7" Single, 12" single

Length
  
4:19

B-side
  
Let Me Go (Instrumental)

"Let Me Go" (labelled as Let Me Go! on the sleeve of the single) is a single by Heaven 17, taken from (and released several months before) their second album The Luxury Gap. It actually first appeared on the band's American self-titled compilation, Heaven 17, which was released in 1982. It reached #41 on the UK singles chart, the lowest chart placement among the singles from that album but their highest at the time of the single's release.

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The song also spent five weeks at #4 on the American dance chart in 1983. Allmusic cites it as "a club hit that features Glenn Gregory's moody, dramatic lead above a percolating vocal and synth arrangement."

It was one of the first commercial releases to feature the Roland TB-303, a bass synthesiser which later played a pivotal role in the later acid house movement.

The song appeared at #81 on Q101 Top 500 Songs of "All Time".

Formats

7" Single
  1. "Let Me Go" - 4:19
  2. "Let Me Go (Instrumental)" - 4:59
12" Single
  1. "Let Me Go (Extended version)" - 6:14
  2. "Let Me Go (Instrumental)" - 4:54
  • It was the first track heard on the opening episode of That 80's Show.
  • The distinctive bassline and drum machine is sampled on Ce Jeu, a track by French band Yelle, released in September 2007.

    • References

    Let Me Go (Heaven 17 song) Wikipedia
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