Heartbeat (King Crimson song)

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"Heartbeat"
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Single by King Crimson
from the album Beat
B-side "Requiem"
ReleasedJune 1982 [1]
Recorded1982
Genre
Length3:54
Label Warner Records
Songwriter(s) Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin
Producer(s) Rhett Davies
King Crimson singles chronology
"Thela Hun Ginjeet"
(1981)
"Heartbeat"
(1982)
"Sleepless"
(1984)

"Heartbeat" is a song by the band King Crimson, released as a single in 1982. In the beginning of the music video there is a stream of faces blending into one another, one of the earliest examples of the dissolving/morphing technique which would later be employed in Godley & Creme's "Cry" and Michael Jackson's "Black or White".

Contents

The song was later recorded by King Crimson guitarist and singer Adrian Belew for his 1990 solo album, Young Lions .

Track listing

7" version

  1. "Heartbeat" (Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin)
  2. "Requiem" (Edited version) (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin)

12" version

  1. "Heartbeat" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin)
  2. "Neal and Jack and Me" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin)
  3. "Sartori in Tangier" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin)

Personnel

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