Skin Deep (The Stranglers song)

"Skin Deep"
"Skin Deep"
Single by The Stranglers
from the album Aural Sculpture
B-side	"Here and There"
Released	24 September 1984
Recorded	Brussels 1983–1984
Genre	New wave
Length	3:55 (7" single/album); 7:12 (12" version)
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Hugh Cornwell; Dave Greenfield; Jean-Jacques Burnel; Jet Black;
Producer(s)	The Stranglers
The Stranglers singles chronology

"Skin Deep" is a song by British band the Stranglers, released in September 1984 as the lead single from the album Aural Sculpture.^[2]

The shimmering^[3] and melodic single restored the band to the UK top 20 after its previous two single releases (from the album Feline) had stalled at numbers 48 and 35. "Skin Deep" peaked at No. 11 in Australia and Ireland.

The music video consists of the band performing the song, interspersed with shots of a snake crawling over a person and the band removing face masks towards the end of the video, finishing with a shot of the aural sculpture featured on the parent album cover.

^ "Melody Maker" (PDF). Melody Maker. 15 September 1984. p. 4. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
^ "Official singles Chart results matching:skin deep". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
^ Adams, Craig (2002). "Shades of Grey". Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen. New York: Soft Skull Press. p. 171. ISBN 1-887128-89-1.

[1] "Melody Maker" (PDF). Melody Maker. 15 September 1984. p. 4. Retrieved 11 January 2021.

[Official_Charts_Company_-_Skin_Deep_(The_Stranglers_song)-2] "Official singles Chart results matching:skin deep". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 September 2016.

[3] Adams, Craig (2002). "Shades of Grey". Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen. New York: Soft Skull Press. p. 171. ISBN 1-887128-89-1.

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