"I Wanna Be a Kennedy" | ||||
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Released | February 1992 | |||
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Label | Polydor | |||
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"I Wanna be a Kennedy" on YouTube | ||||
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"I Wanna Be a Kennedy" is a song recorded by German dance music project U96,released as the second single from their debut album, Das Boot . Musically,the song is very similar to the 1980 song "Fade to Grey" by British new wave band Visage,in which its similarity can be clearly heard in the main synthesizer riff. It was successful in Germany,Switzerland and Austria where it was a top ten hit.
British magazine Music Week gave the song four out of five,stating that U96 "could turn out to be more than one-hit-wonders thanks to I Wanna Be A Kennedy,a thumping rave track based on Visage's Fade To Grey. It all sounds a bit dated,but then so did Das Boot." [1]
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