Whenever You're Ready
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| Single by Five Star | ||
| from the album Between The Lines | ||
| Released | August 3, 1987 | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 4:22 | |
| Label | RCA/Ariola, Tent | |
| Writer(s) | Lionel Job, Cliff Dawson, Bill Hagans | |
| Producer(s) | Dennis Lambert, | |
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| Five Star singles chronology | ||
| The Slightest Touch (1987) |
Whenever You're Ready (1987) |
Strong As Steel (1987) |
Whenever You're Ready is the name of a 1987 hit single by British pop group Five Star, peaking at UK #11 in August of that year and becoming the first release from their third album, Between the Lines, the follow-up album to the million plus selling album, Silk And Steel.
The album was released at the same time as the single, and the album peaked at UK #7, selling over 350,000 copies, thus not as successful as the last album.
The single reached #11, denying the band another place in the Top 10. It was noted by critics that a formula for a 'hit' was emerging from the Five Star camp with this song, which as a lead single from a new album, did not create too much of a buzz, despite the very catchy melody.
The video shows the band dancing in a white studio, with the youngest member of the band, Delroy, dancing on top of a very high podium. For some reason, you can see fish swimming around, which has been superimposed occasionally over the band's faces.
Whenever You're Ready would later become the group's last top 15 chart position, as later singles made the Top 40, but not as high as this single.
In an interview to promote the song, Denise revealed it was her idea to loop the second chorus of the song, and insert a chorus breaker in the 'repeat to fade' section at the end (which has the same lyrics as the main chorus sung in different melody), although she did not receive a credit for arranging the song in the album sleevenotes.
