Jet Set (Alphaville song)

"Jet Set"
Single by Alphaville
from the album Forever Young
B-side"Golden Feeling"
Released1 March 1985
Recorded1984
GenreSynth-pop, hi-NRG
Length3:40 (7" version)
6:28 (Jellybean mix)
LabelAtlantic / WEA
Songwriter(s)Marian Gold
Bernhard Lloyd
Frank Mertens (track 1)
Ricky Echolette (track 2)
Producer(s)Colin Pearson
Wolfgang Loos
Alphaville singles chronology
"Forever Young"
(1984)
"Jet Set"
(1985)
"Dance with Me"
(1986)

Jet Set” is the fourth and last single from Alphaville's first album, Forever Young, and was released in March 1985.[1]

Re-recorded and released after founding band member Frank Mertens left the band, the 7" version drops the word 'The' from the song's title and is mildly different from the original album version.[1]

Marian Gold said of the song, "We didn't intend to write a proper song; it was supposed to be some kind of jingle that advertises things money can't buy: anarchy, freedom, love, fun and a piece of the end of the world."[2]

  1. ^ a b Alphaville Discography, retrieved 26 January 2013[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ First Harvest 1984-92 Liner Notes, Page 7