Vanity Kills

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"Vanity Kills"
ABC Vanity Kills.jpg
Single by ABC
from the album How to Be a ... Zillionaire!
B-side "Judy's Jewels"
Released31 May 1985 [1]
RecordedDecember 1984
Genre Synth-pop [2]
Length3:28
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Martin Fry
  • Mark White
ABC singles chronology
"Be Near Me"
(1985)		"Vanity Kills"
(1985)		"Ocean Blue"
(1986)
Music video
"Vanity Kills" on YouTube

"Vanity Kills" is a song by the English pop band ABC, released as the third single from their third studio album, How to Be a ... Zillionaire! (1985). [3] It peaked at No. 70 on the UK Singles Chart and reached No. 91 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [4]

Contents

Composition

The song is in a C key and a major mode with a BPM of 125.

Music video

Two music videos were made by the band ABC. The UK video shows the four band members moving against a dark background, using simple stop motion camera tricks. [5]

The US version, directed by Peter Care, [6] has a spoken prologue and epilogue, and presents Martin Fry and Mark White as noir detectives, investigating a variety of shady characters. [7]

Track listing

  1. "Vanity Kills"
  2. "Judy's Jewels"

Chart performance

Chart (1985)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 70
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 91
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 5

References

  1. ↑ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 10.
  2. ↑ Phares, Heather. ABC - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of ABC (2000) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Vanity Kills". AllMusic .
  4. ↑ "ABC Chart History". Billboard .
  5. ↑ Vanity Kills UK Video. MTV . Archived from the original on 23 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Vanity Kills at IMDb
  7. ↑ Vanity Kills US Video. MTV . Archived from the original on 23 July 2015.
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