Heart Telegraph

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"Heart Telegraph"
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Single by Divinyls
from the album What a Life!
B-side "Guillotine Day"
Released5 May 1986 [1]
Genre New wave
Length4:48
Label Chrysalis
Songwriter(s) Christina Amphlett, Mark McEntee
Producer(s) Gary Langan
Divinyls singles chronology
"Sleeping Beauty"
(1985)
"Heart Telegraph"
(1986)
"Back to the Wall"
(1988)

"Heart Telegraph" is a song by Australian rock band Divinyls. It was released in 1986 as the final single from their second studio album What a Life! . The song was written by Christina Amphlett and Mark McEntee and produced by Gary Langan, who was one of three producers who worked on the album What a Life!.

Contents

In 1985, Divinyls scored a big hit with the song "Pleasure and Pain", which made the top twenty in Australia. They followed it up with "Sleeping Beauty" which was only a minor success and then came "Heart Telegraph", which was not successful, only peaking at number ninety on the Australian Kent Music Report singles chart.

Track listing

Australian 7" Single [2]
  1. "Heart Telegraph" (Edit)
  2. "Guillotine Day" - 3:08
Australian 12" Limited Edition
  1. "Heart Telegraph" - 4:48
  2. "Guillotine Day" - 3:08

Charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 90

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References

  1. "Kent Music Report No 616 – 5 May 1985 (sic) > Singles: New Releases". Imgur.com (original document published by Kent Music Report). Retrieved 2017-11-30. N.B. This document erroneously lists the year as 1985 rather than 1986.
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  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 . St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 91. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.