Smalltown Boy

"Smalltown Boy"
Single by Bronski Beat
from the album The Age of Consent
B-side
  • "Memories"
  • "Infatuation" (12")
Released25 May 1984 (UK)[1]
StudioThe Garden (London, England)
Genre
Length
  • 5:02 (album version)
  • 3:58 (single version)
  • 9:00 (12" version)
LabelLondon
Songwriter(s)
  • Steve Bronski
  • Jimmy Somerville
  • Larry Steinbachek
Producer(s)Mike Thorne
Bronski Beat singles chronology
"Smalltown Boy"
(1984) 		"Why?"
(1984)
Music video
"Smalltown Boy" on YouTube

"Smalltown Boy" is a 1984 debut single by English band Bronski Beat and is the leading single from their debut studio album The Age of Consent. It went to number 3 in the United Kingdom and Germany, number 48 in the United States, number 5 in New Zealand, number 4 in Ireland, number 1 in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium, number 2 in Switzerland and Austria and number 8 in Finland and Australia. It was re-released by Jimmy Somerville as a remix single in 1991.

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References

  1. ↑ "New Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 19 May 1984. p. 14. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Vivinetto, Gina (9 March 2015). "Pop Icon Jimmy Somerville: A Career Overview". The Advocate. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  3. ↑ MarkWilson (18 May 2011). "Emilie Simon Releases "Smalltown Boy"". AltSounds. Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Walters, Barry (20 June 2000). "His beat goes on". The Advocate. p. 115. ISSN 0001-8996. As Bronski Beat's falsetto leader, Somerville made gay politics a hot pop topic with such hi-NRG dance floor staples as "Why?" and "Smalltown Boy"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Adam Block (9 December 1986). "A Clarion Call from England's Communards: Syl's New "Attraction"" (PDF). The Advocate. Retrieved 23 December 2022. The trio had met as friends and performed as a hoot, but their first single, "Smalltown Boy" (an autobiographical tale of a gay youth fleeing homophobia for the tolerance of the big city), became a Hi-NRG disco fave on both sides of the Atlantic.
  6. ↑ "Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat". BBC. Retrieved 23 December 2022.