Games People Play (The Alan Parsons Project song)
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| Single by The Alan Parsons Project | ||||||||||
| from the album The Turn of a Friendly Card | ||||||||||
| B-side | "The Ace of Swords" | |||||||||
| Released |
 December 1980 March 1981 | |||||||||
| Format | 7" | |||||||||
| Recorded | late 1979 to mid-1980 | |||||||||
| Genre | Soft rock, progressive rock | |||||||||
| Length |
4:23 3:17 (7" edit) | |||||||||
| Label | Arista | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson | |||||||||
| The Alan Parsons Project singles chronology | ||||||||||
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"Games People Play" is a 1980 song by the Alan Parsons Project. It peaked at #16 in March 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It appears on the album The Turn of a Friendly Card and was sung by Lenny Zakatek.
In popular culture
The song is featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories as part of its soundtrack in the fictional pop radio station, Flash FM.
Cover versions/sampling
The chorus of "Games People Play" was sampled for Soul Du Jour's song "Here We Go Again" in 2001, as well as on Yung Berg & Twista's "Where Do We Go" in 2007.
The song was covered in Spanish by the Asturian group Cuélebre on their album Ave Fénix under the title "Juegos de la gente".
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