'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)' is written in the key of F♯ minor Re-releases Ī remix version of 'You Spin Me Round' was released in 2003 at the same time Dead or Alive's greatest hits album Evolution was released. Engineer Phil Harding, who mixed the track, said tensions were running so high between the band members and producers Mike Stock and Matt Aitken during mixing, that it almost escalated to violence. 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'. The strings were based on Richard Wagner's classical piece ' Ride of the Valkyries'.

It was unanimous – it was awful, it was rubbish.' Burns stated that the band had to fund production of the song's video themselves. Īccording 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. So I had those two, Van Dross and Little Nell and – bingo! – done deal.ĭesiring to move on from the sound of the band's first album, Sophisticated Boom Boom, Pete Burns wanted 'You Spin Me Round' to be produced by the then little-known production team Stock Aitken Waterman, in the Hi-NRG style of their 1984 UK hits ' You Think You're a Man' by Divine, and ' Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)' by Hazell Dean. And there was another record, by Little Nell, called 'See You 'Round Like A Record'. I don't want to do Luther Vandross's song, but I can still sing the same pattern over it.

It's like do this, do this, do this - and suddenly it hits. I'm trying to structure the music and I know what I want. I didn't sit and study the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song and it locked. It's not the same chord structure, but then that's the way I make music – I hear something and I sing another tune over it. How did I write 'Spin Me'? I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love'. Dead or Alive's vocalist Pete Burns stated in his autobiography that he composed 'You Spin Me Round' by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new:

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