"Be My Lover Now" | ||||
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Single by Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey | ||||
from the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder | ||||
Released | 12 August 1985 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1985 | |||
Length | 3:42 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Songwriter(s) | Moroder and Oakey | |||
Producer(s) | Giorgio Moroder | |||
Philip Oakey singles chronology | ||||
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Giorgio Moroder singles chronology | ||||
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"Be My Lover Now" is a song by British singer and songwriter Philip Oakey and producer Giorgio Moroder. It was written by Oakey and Moroder and recorded for the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder. It was released as a single in the UK in August 1985 where it reached number 74 on the singles charts and remained on the charts for 1 week. It was the third and final single to be released from the brief Oakey/Moroder partnership which had started with the hit single " Together in Electric Dreams" (1984). [2]
The music video for "Be My Lover Now" was less extravagant than the high budget video for the previous single " Good-Bye Bad Times".
The video has a surreal theme and features Philip Oakey performing on stage in an ornate theatre, with 3 female backing singers/dancers and two female podium dancers either side of the stage who are dressed identically to an audience of identical blue dress wearing female 'clones' in their 30s/40s who are competing for Oakey's attention.
Upon its release as a single, Don Watson of NME considered "Be My Lover Now" to be "catchy enough" and "definitely an improvement" on " Together in Electric Dreams". He also noted the "infuriatingly familiar, cloying perfect slide guitar refrain", but felt overall that the song did not "contain a spark of the irresistible tacky thrill that was ' Love Action'". [3] Nancy Culp of Record Mirror remarked, "Phil, darling, you are wasting your awesome vocal talents endorsing this aural popcorn. Please go away at once and sing 15 choruses of ' Louise' to make up for it." [4] Ro Newton of Number One noted the talents of Oakey and Moroder but felt "together they just don't seem to gel". She described the song as a "flat, repetitive disco dirge which establishes nothing except the fact Phillip is becoming rather desperate". [5] John Harrison, writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, called it "strictly dance-floor material, with the inherent weakness (banal lyrics) and strengths (big beat) of that tag", but added that "it is a little classier than most of the ilk". [6]