Let Me Go (Heaven 17 song)


"Let Me Go" is a single by Heaven 17, taken from 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.
In 1983, the song also spent five weeks at #4 on the American dance chart and entered the US Billboard Hot 100. Allmusic cites it as "a club hit that features Glenn Gregory's moody, dramatic lead above a percolating vocal and synth arrangement." Thanks to its popularity in clubs, "Let Me Go" received considerable airplay on such radio stations as CKGM-AM 980 in Montreal at the time of its release. For many years, dance-formatted WPOW-FM "Power 96" in Miami would play the track. Similarly, Modern Rock radio stations including KROQ-FM in Los Angeles, XETRA in San Diego-Tijuana, and WLIR-FM in Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y., would regularly play the track.
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.
The song appeared at #81 on Q101 Top 500 Songs of "All Time".

Formats

;7" Single
  1. "Let Me Go" – 4:19
  2. "Let Me Go" – 4:59
;12" Single
  1. "Let Me Go" – 6:14
  2. "Let Me Go" – 4:54

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