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| Length = | Label = Epic | Writer = | Producer = Stock Aitken Waterman | Certification = Gold (BPI, CRIA) | Last single = "That's the Way (I Like It)" (1984) | This single = "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (1984) | Next single = "Lover Come Back to Me" (1985) }} "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album ''Youthquake''. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. On the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, it peaked at no. 11 on 17 August of that year. In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. The video, which features a disco ball, waving gold flags and an evocation of the six-armed Vishnu, was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton. The strings were based on Richard Wagner's classical piece ''Ride of the Valkyries''. ==Background and composition== Dead or Alive's vocalist Pete Burns states in his autobiography that he composed "You Spin Me Round" by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new: According to Burns, the record company was unenthusiastic about "You Spin Me Round", to such an extent that Burns had to take out a £2,500 loan to record it, then once it had been recorded "the record company said it was awful. It was unanimous – it was awful, it was rubbish." Burns states that the band had to fund production of the song's video themselves. Interviewed for BBC Radio 4's ''The Reunion: The Hit Factory'', in April 2015, Burns said that the confrontational attitude of the producers was met with an equally confrontational attitude from the band and that this led to "quite a bad vibe" for the entirety of the studio time, describing the experience as "a time of intense friction". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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