I Go Crazy (Flesh for Lulu song)

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"I Go Crazy"
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Single by Flesh for Lulu
from the album Long Live the New Flesh
Released1987
Genre Alternative rock, new wave [1]
Length3:54
Label Beggars Banquet
Songwriter(s) Nick Marsh, Kevin Mills, James Mitchell, Rocco Barker
Producer(s) Flesh for Lulu
Flesh for Lulu singles chronology
"Postcards from Paradise"
(1987)
"I Go Crazy"
(1987)
"Time and Space"
(1990)

"I Go Crazy" is a song by British alternative rock band Flesh for Lulu from their third studio album Long Live the New Flesh (1987). An American college rock radio hit, [2] the song gained prominence through its inclusion on the soundtrack to the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful . [1]

Music video

The official music video for the song was directed by Andy Morahan. [3]

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References

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