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“Lover Come Back to Me” by Dead or Alive
From the album Youthquake (1985)
“Lover Come Back to Me” by Dead or Alive appears on 5 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1985 and 1998. It was first released in 1985 on the album Youthquake. Its best result is #59 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1985. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #125 alternative song of 1985 and #3,203 alternative song of all time.
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Dead or Alive kept the dance-pop machine running full throttle on "Lover Come Back to Me", a 1985 single and the second from their second album, Youthquake. Stock Aitken Waterman produced, and the track pounds and glitters like a mirrorball in a gale. Pete Burns wrote it with Steve Coy, Tim Lever and Mike Percy.
It went to No. 11 in Britain, No. 3 in South Africa and No. 5 in Switzerland, and scraped into the Hot 100 at No. 75. The UK got a fan-shaped picture disc, with "Far Too Hard" from Sophisticated Boom Boom on the back, and the band cut it again in 2003 for Evolution: The Hits.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 59 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1985 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 152 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) | 496 |
| 1989 | 197 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) | 495 |
| 1996 | 308 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) | 500 |
| 1998 | 390 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) | 488 |
Also listed as: Lover Come Back.
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