"Space Age Love Song" | ||||
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Single by A Flock of Seagulls | ||||
from the album A Flock of Seagulls | ||||
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Released | 28 May 1982 | |||
Recorded | 1981 | |||
Studio | Battery, London | |||
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Length | 3:45 | |||
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Producer(s) | Mike Howlett | |||
A Flock of Seagulls singles chronology | ||||
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"Space Age Love Song" on YouTube |
"Space Age Love Song" is a 1982 single released by the British band A Flock of Seagulls. It was their fourth single. Lead guitarist Paul Reynolds remarked on their 1984 video album Through the Looking Glass that, as the band could not come up with a title for the track, he suggested "Space Age Love Song" because he thought it sounded like a space age love song. The song reached the top 30 in the UK and the US in June 1982 and February 1983 respectively. The music video was directed by Tony van den Ende at Danceteria NY City.
"Space Age Love Song" and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" summed up synth-pop's spaced-out loneliness, dreamy confections imagining absent lovers from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.