"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking seventeen weeks to get there. In the US, it peaked at #11 in September of that year.
The video was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton.
The strings were based on Richard Wagner's classical piece Ride of the Valkyries. The song is in 4/4 time and in the key of F# minor.
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