"Baby Don't Say Goodbye" Released: 26 October 1989[5]
Nude is the fourth studio album by British pop group Dead or Alive, released in Japan on December 18th, 1988 and in Europe and America in July 1989 on Epic Records.[6]Nude marked the band's first entirely self-produced album. Tim Lever and Mike Percy left the band during the album's production, leaving remaining members Pete Burns and Steve Coy.[7] While the album was not as commercially successful in the band's native United Kingdom as their previous offerings, the album peaked within the top 10 in Japan, charted for 18 weeks,[8] and produced the band's biggest hit single in the territory, Turn Around and Count 2 Ten, which peaked atop the Oricon Singles Chart. The album was re-released in the UK in 2016 as a part of the comprehensive box setSophisticated Boom Box MMXVI.
Three singles were released to promote the release of Nude, the Japanese number-one Turn Around and Count 2 Ten, and US Dance hits Come Home with Me Baby (#1) and Baby Don't Say Goodbye (#6)[9]. I Cannot Carry On was lifted from the album as an airplay single in Japan in 1988, but did not receive a commercial release. In the UK, Baby Don't Say Goodbye was to be released as the third and final single from the album in 1989 (catalogue number BURNS C6), however the release was quickly withdrawn. The mixes from this planned release would later feature on the box set Still Spinnin': The Singles Collection 1983-2021 in February 2024. Furthermore, Give It Back (That Love Is Mine) appeared on various Epic sampler releases in both Japan[10][11] and the US[12] in 1989, but no official single release ever materialised.
Reviewing the album for Melody Maker (issue dated August 5th, 1989), Steve Sutherland concluded the album's lyrical content was "rife with confrontations, accusations, proclamations, anything that keeps Burns centre-stage, preening himself through roles like a campOlivier," whilst noting that, "stylistically, Nude [hadn't] moved much anywhere from the exhilarating hi-NRG of Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know." Retrospectively reviewing the album in 2021, Connor Grotto for RetroPop Magazine described Nude as the "perfect Dead or Alive album" and "their strongest offering overall".[13]
To accompany the album and to promote the concert tour Disco in Dream[19] in Japan, a remix album entitled Nude - Remade Remodelled was released exclusively in the territory on September 21st, 1989. Featuring the first six tracks from Nude remixed by Burns and Coy and the 12" Version of Come Home with Me Baby, the album proved a success in Japan, reaching number 17 on the Oricon Albums Chart and charting for six weeks.[20]
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