(I Just) Died in Your Arms

"(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
Single by Cutting Crew
from the album Broadcast
B-side"For the Longest Time"
Released25 July 1986 (1986-07-25)[1]
RecordedFebruary 1986
GenrePop rock
Length4:39
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)Nick Van Eede
Producer(s)
Cutting Crew singles chronology
"(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
(1986) 		"I've Been in Love Before"
(1986)
Audio sample

"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" is the debut single by the English pop rock band Cutting Crew, released on 25 July 1986 as a single from their debut studio album, Broadcast. The song was written by frontman Nick Van Eede, produced by Terry Brown, John Jansen and the band, and mixed at Utopia Studios in London by Tim Palmer.

The power ballad[2] is the band's biggest hit, peaking at No. 1 in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Finland, and reaching the top five in Germany, Ireland, the UK, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Composition and recording

According to Nick Van Eede, he wrote down a lot of song titles and ideas on a sheet of wallpaper, and one of the lines written there was "I just died in your arms tonight".[3] The line came to Van Eede while he was having sex with his girlfriend; Van Eede said: "I actually remember saying that", and wrote it down.[4] He woke up in the morning, wrote the song, and recorded a demo in three days.[5] He first added some chords to the line, singing it phonetically, before adding other lines from the wallpaper to construct a song. He wrote for three or four hours before realising what he was singing about. He said: "I'd split up with my girlfriend, we'd got back together for one night and there's a lot of guilt because I should have kept my distance."[3]

He first recorded a demo in the house of his schoolfriend Pete Birch, with Birch singing harmony in the song. The band recorded the song after they were signed to Siren, part of Virgin Records, in the Mediasound Studios in New York. Van Eede was dissatisfied with the result, and tried to re-record the song in London. They could not get the harmony right in the pre-production, so producer John Jansen asked about the person who sang the harmony in the demo, and Birch was brought in, and he "sang a perfect take in four minutes".[3] Jansen, however, had to leave before the recording was finished, and Van Eede contacted Terry Brown, the producer in Canada for Van Eede's previous band, the Drivers. Brown flew to London, and recut the whole song, with the exceptions of some keyboards and vocals.[3]

The song was released in 1986. The label questioned the use of brackets for "I Just" in the title, but relented when it was pointed out such similar use in "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones.[3]

In 2024, Jax Jones, Joel Corry and Jason Derulo collaborated to create a remix version of the song called "Tonight (D.I.Y.A.)".

Music video

There were two music videos produced. The North American version featured artistic fragmented shots using a model, with the band performing to camera. The UK version was filmed in a studio, both in color as well as black and white, while only the latter had been made available in Apple Music stores, from countries like Canada[6] and Brazil.[7]

On 29 October 2020, Van Eede announced, through Cutting Crew's official Facebook page, that a remastered HD edition of the "UK version" music video was uploaded to the band's former Vevo official account on YouTube.[8]

2020 reissue

In early 2020, the song was rerecorded and reissued as in an orchestral incarnation as well as in several other versions as the lead single for the second Cutting Crew compilation album, Ransomed Healed Restored Forgiven,[9] accompanied by a new music video uploaded to YouTube,[9] through the official account of the band's new label, August Day. The new release for the hit has been through an 8-track extended play (EP) released to digital platforms.[10][11] There is also a physical release, on CD, offered as a solo release and also included as part of the limited deluxe version of the new greatest hits album, both sold through the band's official webstore.[12]

Chart performance

First released in Britain, the song peaked at No. 4 on the UK charts on 19 September 1986. Upon its release in the United States, the previously-unknown band's debut single shot to No. 1 on 2 May 1987, and stayed there for two weeks. It also reached No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, No. 24 on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and (in a remix version) No. 37 on the Hot Dance/Club Play chart.[13] The song spent three weeks at number one in Canada.

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[37] Platinum 80,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[38] Gold 45,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[39] Gold 250,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[40] Gold 50,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[41] Gold 30,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[42] Platinum 600,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  2. ^ "Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart and the 20 other best power ballads". The Telegraph. 23 July 2015.
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  4. ^ Bronson, Fred (2001). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. p. 665. ISBN 0-8230-7677-6.
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  8. ^ "I know you have all seen it before..75 million of you, but here is the new HD version online...sounds (especially good) and looks much better. (...)". Official Cutting Crew's Facebook page. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  9. ^ a b Smith, Lawrence (31 March 2020). "Cutting Crew return with a stunning orchestral album: a conversation with Nick Van Eede". Hastings & St. Leonards Observer. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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  12. ^ "CD & Vinyl". Cutting Crew official website. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  13. ^ "Cutting Crew, "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" Chart Positions". Billboard. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  14. ^ "Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  15. ^ Belgian peak Archived 9 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - May 16, 1987" (PDF).
  17. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 6 June 1987. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  18. ^ "Cutting Crew: (I Just) Died in Your Arms" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat.
  19. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – I Just Died in Your Arms". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
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  28. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's Rock Tracks. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 44. ISBN 0898201535. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  29. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 68. ISBN 978-0898201697. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
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  31. ^ "Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video". Polish Airplay Top 100. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
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  39. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Cutting Crew; '(I Just) Died In Your Arms')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
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  41. ^ "Spanish single certifications – Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died In Your Arms". El portal de Música. Productores de Música de España. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
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