Be My Lover Now
"Be My Lover Now" | |||||||||||||||||
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Single by Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey | |||||||||||||||||
from the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder | |||||||||||||||||
Released | August 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
Format | Single | ||||||||||||||||
Recorded | 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
Genre | Synthpop, new wave | ||||||||||||||||
Length | 3:42 | ||||||||||||||||
Label | Virgin Records | ||||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Moroder and Oakey | ||||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Giorgio Moroder | ||||||||||||||||
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"Be My Lover Now" is a song by the British singer and composer Philip Oakey and producer Giorgio Moroder. It was written by Oakey and Moroder and recorded for the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder. It was released as a single in the UK in August 1985 where it reached number 74 in the singles charts and remained in the charts for 1 week. It was the third and final single to be released from the brief Oakey/Moroder partnership which had started with the single "Together in Electric Dreams" (1984).[1]
Because the single was not a huge success and neither was the album, it effectively ended the short-lived partnership between Oakey and Moroder in 1985. Oakey returned to work with his band, The Human League, full-time.
Music video
The Music Video for “Be My Lover Now” was much less extravagant than the high budget video for the previous single "Good-Bye Bad Times". It borrows heavily from Robert Palmer’s "Addicted to Love" and Stock Aitken and Waterman music videos of 1985.
The video has a surreal theme and features Philip Oakey performing on stage in an ornate theatre, with 3 female backing singers/dancers and two female podium dancers either side of the stage who are dressed identically. To an audience of identical blue dress wearing female 'clones' in their 30s/ 40s who are competing for Oakey's attention.
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