B-side "Insecure Me" Length 4:08 | Genre Synthpop, new wave Label Some Bizzare | |
Released 7 May 1982 (1982-05-07) Format 7-inch single, 12-inch single | ||
"Torch" is a song by English synthpop duo Soft Cell. It was released as a single in 1982, and in mid-June peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, ranking 45 for the year. It also reached number 31 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart and number 12 in the Netherlands.
Singer Marc Almond duets towards the end of the song with Cindy Ecstasy, a rapper from New York, who sings slightly off-key in an approximation of an Estuary English accent.
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Torch (song) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA