Let Me Go (Heaven 17 song)

"Let Me Go"
Single by Heaven 17
from the album The Luxury Gap /
Heaven 17
(in the U.S.)
B-side Let Me Go (Instrumental)
Released 1982
Format 7" Single, 12" single
Genre New wave, synthpop
Length 4:19
Label Virgin Records
Writer(s) Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
Producer(s) British Electric Foundation
Heaven 17 singles chronology
"At The Height Of The Fighting"
(1982)
"Let Me Go"
(1982)
"Temptation"
(1983)

"Let Me Go" (labelled as Let Me Go! on the sleeve of the single) is a single by Heaven 17, taken from (and released several months before) their second album The Luxury Gap. It actually first appeared on the band's American self-titled compilation, Heaven 17, which was released in 1982. It reached #41 on the UK singles chart, the lowest chart placement among the singles from that album but their highest at the time of the single's release.

The song also spent five weeks at #4 on the American dance chart in 1983. Allmusic cites it as "a club hit that features Glenn Gregory's moody, dramatic lead above a percolating vocal and synth arrangement."[1]

It was one of the first commercial releases to feature the Roland TB-303, a bass synthesiser which later played a pivotal role in the later acid house movement.[2]

The song appeared at #81 on Q101 Top 500 Songs of "All Time".[3]

Formats

7" Single
  1. "Let Me Go" - 4:19
  2. "Let Me Go (Instrumental)" - 4:59
12" Single
  1. "Let Me Go (Extended version)" - 6:14
  2. "Let Me Go (Instrumental)" - 4:54

Appearances in popular culture

Chart performance

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Total
weeks
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 78 3
Canadian Singles Chart[5] 41 6
Irish Singles Chart[6] 26 1
UK Singles Chart[7] 41 8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8] 74 5
U.S. Dance/Club Play Singles[9] 4
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart[10] 32

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