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Hit That Perfect Beat
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Hit That Perfect Beat
| cover = Hit That Perfect Beat cover.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Bronski Beat
| album = Truthdare Doubledare
| released = 1985
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Hi-NRG
| length = 3:38
| label = London
| writer = Steve Bronski, John Foster, Larry Steinbachek
| producer = Adam Williams
| prev_title = I Feel Love
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = C'mon, C'mon
| next_year = 1986
| misc =
}}
"'Hit That Perfect Beat'" is a song by British synthpop trio Bronski Beat from their second album, 'Truthdare Doubledare' (1986). It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart in January 1986 and entered the top 10 in several European countries, Australia, and South Africa.
Music video
The video for the song featured frontman and vocalist John Foster in the video seeking to join the group after reading an advert in a newspaper and fronts an audition to join the group. The video also features the other two band members playing with Foster at a Liverpool club called "The State" as well as scenes from in and around Stanley Dock, and flashes from the 1985 film Letter to Brezhnev .
Track listings and formats
Use in other media
The number was used as the theme song opening and closing the popular South African television exercise programme 'Body Beat', directed by Wally Green and presented from 1989 until 1998 by Dr Phil Joffe. Viewed at 06.10 five days a week by one and a half million viewers, the show was filmed in venues throughout South Africa, visiting Namibia and Zimbabwe for further shoots.
The song's refrain is also quoted in the Die Antwoord song "Beat Boy" and the Zef Side video.
The song also appears at the end of 'A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica', where Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett dance to the song's chorus during the film's credits as bassist Jason Newsted walks by bobbing his head.
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References
Category:1985 singles
Category:1985 songs
Category:Bronski Beat songs
Category:London Records singles
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