Time (Music for Pleasure song)

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"Time"
Music for Pleasure - Time.jpg
Single by Music for Pleasure
from the album Into the Rain
Released1983
Genre New wave
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s) Mark Copson, Christopher Oldroyd, Ivor Roberts and David Whitaker
Producer(s) John Brand
Music for Pleasure singles chronology
"Light"
(1983)
"Time"
(1983)
"Dark Crash"
(1983)

"Time" is a single by the new wave band Music for Pleasure. It was released in 1983 on Polydor. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Mark Copson, Christopher Oldroyd, Ivor Roberts and David Whitaker.

Polydor 7" Single: POSP 553

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Time"3:35
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Slide" 

Polydor 12" Single: POSPX 553

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Time (Extended Version)"5:43
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Slide (Extended Version)"4:53

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. "Music For Pleasure – Time". discogs . Retrieved August 26, 2010.