- Temptation (Heaven 17 song)
Infobox Single
Name = Temptation
Artist =Heaven 17
from Album =The Luxury Gap
B-side = "We Live So Fast", "Who'll Stop the Rain"
Released =11 April 1983
Format = 7", 12", 3" CD
Recorded = 1983
Genre =Synthpop
Length = 3:08 (7"), 4:37 (12")
Label =Virgin Records
Writer =Glenn Gregory ,Ian Craig Marsh ,Martyn Ware
Producer = B.E.F., Greg Walsh
Certification =
Chart position = * #2 (UK)
Last single = "Let Me Go"
(1982)
This single = "Temptation"
(1983)
Next single = "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry"
(1983)"Temptation" is a single by
Sheffield bandHeaven 17 , originally released in April 1983, peaking at number 2 in the UK charts. This was the second single to be taken from their second album "The Luxury Gap ", after November 1982's "Let Me Go" which peaked at number 41.The guest vocals are provided by
Carol Kenyon , who continued to work with the band on the "Pleasure One " and "Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho " albums. The song also featured an orchestra, arranged and conducted by John Wesley Barker, which was also heard for the single "Come Live With Me" and in various tracks on the parent album.Heaven 17 were featured on
Top of the Pops ' 1000th edition in 1983, performing this track. In 1992, the song was remixed and re-released by theBrothers in Rhythm , whose new mix charted at number 4 in the UK Top 40, and hitting the top spot in the UK dance charts."Temptation" was featured in the 1996 film "Trainspotting". It is also featured on the second volume of the official soundtrack.
Video
The original Heaven 17 video, directed by
Steve Barron (who also directedMichael Jackson 's "Billie Jean " that same year) featured the band dressed in black, in drab, grey surroundings in a style of German expressionism and had segments of (what looks like) an abstract office interview of some kind between vocalists Glenn Gregory and a Carol Kenyon lookalike interspersed throughout. Kenyon herself does not feature in the video.Covers
The song was covered by
Cradle of Filth . It was produced by Rob Caggiano and released by Roadrunner in September 2006 as the lead single to "Thornography "The video features
Dani Filth andVictoria Harrison , also known as Dirty Harry in a fictional Garden Of Eden and was directed by British horror directorAdam Mason . Shooting took place on a farm nearHuntington on7 September ,2006 Fact|date=July 2007 and recreates the biblical tale ofAdam and Eve .At the Shockwaves
NME Awards 2007,Jarvis Cocker andBeth Ditto performed "Temptation", and released it as a charity single. [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/48787-jarvis-cocker-gossips-beth-ditto-cut-charity-single]
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