"Fly Away" is a song by Trinidadian-German musician Haddaway,released on 30 April 1995 as the lead single from his second album,The Drive (1995). It was written by Dee Dee Halligan,Richard W. Palmer-James and Junior Torello,and produced by Halligan and Torello. As with several of Haddaway's singles,another CD maxi was commercialized a few months after the first release. The song was a number-one hit in Finland and a top-10 hit in Denmark,Italy,Lithuania,the Netherlands and Switzerland. The music video for "Fly Away" features the singer in a prison cell.
James Hamilton from British magazine Music Week's RM Dance Update described "Fly Away" as a "unhurried crooned Euro galloper".[1] Paul Moody from NME said it "is the sort of tedious Euroslush you'd expect minus the existential angst that made 'What Is Love' so groovy."[2]
Chart performance
"Fly Away" peaked at number one in Finland[3] and on the European Dance Radio Chart.[4] It entered the top 10 in Denmark,[5] Italy,[6] Lithuania,the Netherlands and Switzerland. Additionally,the single was a top-20 hit in Austria,Flanders,Sweden and the United Kingdom,as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100,where it reached number 17 in May 1995.[7] On the UK Singles Chart,"Fly Away" reached its highest position of number 20 during its first week on the chart,on 18 June 1995.[8] It also peaked at number 25 on the UK Dance Singles Chart[9] and number 13 on the Record Mirror UK on a Pop Tip Club Chart.[10]
Music video
In the music video for "Fly Away",Haddaway appears sitting alone in a prison cell. On the wall is a picture of a beach. He reads some lines in an old book,then the camera appears flying over a desert landscape. A naked Haddaway runs through this landscape,where he meets a white horse,smells some flowers and bathes in a waterfall. These dreamy outdoor scenes have a bluish tone. As he keeps running,he reaches a beach,where the waves crashes against the shore. It appears to be the same beach from the picture on the wall in his cell.[11]
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