Surrender (Swing Out Sister song)

"Surrender"
Single by Swing Out Sister
from the album It's Better to Travel
B-side"Who's to Blame"
Released2 January 1987
Recorded1986
GenreSynth-pop[1]
LabelMercury Records
Songwriter(s)Andy Connell / Corinne Drewery / Martin Jackson
Producer(s)Paul Staveley O'Duffy
Swing Out Sister singles chronology
"Breakout"
(1986)
"Surrender"
(1987)
"Twilight World"
(1987)

"Surrender" is a 1987 single released by British pop act Swing Out Sister from their debut album, It's Better to Travel. It was issued as the follow-up to the successful single, "Breakout". The song peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1987 and logged four weeks in the top ten.[2]

Over a year after its initial release, remixes of "Surrender" reached the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at #22 in May 1988.[3]

The song features a trumpet solo performed by John Thirkell and features Drewery laughing at the beginning of the song.

  1. ^ Phares, Heather. Swing Out Sister - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Swing Out Sister (2001) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  2. ^ Official Charts Company info OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974 - 2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 252.