“My Heart Goes Bang” by Dead or Alive

"My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" was the fourth and last single Dead or Alive pulled from Youthquake, their second studio album, in 1985, and it didn't go out the way it sat on the album: the single was rebuilt with largely different instrumentation, much closer to their earlier hit "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". Pete Burns, Steve Coy, Tim Lever and Mike Percy share the writing credit, and it's Hi-NRG with the pulse racing.

It got to 23 in the UK and 12 in Japan, and in America it became a dance hit. Two 7" mixes and two 12" remixes went out, the "American 'Wipe-out'" versions among them with uncredited guitar from Matt Aitken. The video parks Burns, leather jacket and all, on the back of a motorbike and marches the band down a catwalk.

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