Lies (Thompson Twins song)

"Lies"
Single by Thompson Twins
from the album Quick Step and Side Kick
B-side Beach Culture
Released 22 March 1982
Recorded October–November 1981
Genre New wave, synthpop
Length 3:08
Label Arista
Writer(s) Tom Bailey
Alannah Currie
Joe Leeway
Producer(s) Tom Bailey
Thompson Twins singles chronology
"Runaway"
(1982)
"Lies"
(1982)
"Love On Your Side"
(1983)

"Lies" is a 1982 song by the British band Thompson Twins. It was released as the first single from the album Quick Step and Side Kick (which was renamed Side Kicks in the U.S.), and the song peaked at #67 on the UK singles chart. The single fared better in the United States, where it peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1983.[1] Along with the B-side track "Beach Culture", "Lies" also spent two weeks at #1 on the American dance chart in January 1983, becoming the band's second #1 on this chart ("In the Name of Love" had spent five weeks atop this chart in 1982).[2] The music video was played on MTV and other video programs and features a view of the band's feet at the end of an over-sized bed, bouncing back and forth to the rhythm of the song, as a variety of sights pass in a room similar to Bowman's bedroom in 2001: A Space Odyssey or a Magritte painting. At the end, the bed is revealed to be a hospital bed.

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 631.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 258.

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Preceded by
"It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls
Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single
(with "Beach Culture")

8 January 1983
Succeeded by
Thriller (all cuts) by Michael Jackson