| "Strike Me Pink" | ||||||||
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| Single by Deborah Harry | ||||||||
| from the album Debravation | ||||||||
| Released | 1993 | |||||||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||
| Label | UK Chrysalis Records | |||||||
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"Strike Me Pink" is the second and final single from Deborah Harry's fourth solo album Debravation.
"Strike Me Pink" failed to chart in the US and peaked at #46 in the UK. It's Harry's last single to chart on the UK Singles Chart to date and the single didn't make any other major chart besides in the UK.
The video was controversial. The video begins by showing a man dressed in a suit swimming in a glass walled chamber such as used by escape artists. The man is then shown standing upright in the same glass chamber, but there is no water in the chamber. At that point Debbie Harry is shown seated wearing a men's suit. As she sits she pulls down on a rope and water begins to fill the chamber. Initially the man is calm, as if he disbelieves his predicatment. But as the water rises he starts to struggle in a vain effort to free himself from the chamber. The next frames show that the glass walled chamber has been filled with water except for a space at the top that still allows the man to breathe. The video ends with the man submerged but calm, looking imploringly at Debbie Harry. She then approaches the chamber and ignoring his imploring gaze, pulls down a curtain covering the glass chamber and hiding the man from sight as the video ends. At no point does the video ever depict the man drowning. The tone of the video is more artistic than violent. Even so, the music video was banned from several music television channels, thus suffering lower possible airplay time and exposure. Besides the video clip and Harry's current UK tour, the single received very little promotion.
The ballad has slight jazz influences as well as a down-tempo tone that foreshadows Harry's later work with the Jazz Passengers in which she was the lead vocalist.
The single also marked Harry's final release with Chrysalis Records and the end of her four album deal with the company which in 1991 had become a sub-label to EMI Music. This was Harry's last solo single for fourteen years until she released "Two Times Blue" in 2007.
UK CD #1
UK CD #2
UK Cassette
UK 12" Picture Disc
| Chart (1993) | Peak Position |
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| UK | 46 |
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