| "Bang Bang You're Dead" | ||||
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| Single by Dirty Pretty Things | ||||
| from the album Waterloo to Anywhere | ||||
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| Released | 24 April 2006[1] | |||
| Length | 3:35 | |||
| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Dave Sardy | |||
| Dirty Pretty Things singles chronology | ||||
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"Bang Bang You're Dead" is a song by English band Dirty Pretty Things. It was released as the first single from the band's debut album, Waterloo to Anywhere (2006), on 24 April 2006. The song charted at number five on the UK Singles Chart and topped the NME chart in 2006.[2] The same year, it was used as the theme tune to the BBC series Sorted.[3]
Early rumours about the song claimed it was about Pete Doherty, citing the lyric "I gave you the Midas touch/You turned round and scratched out my heart". Carl Barât later affirmed this in an interview for Vulture.[4]
- ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 22 April 2006. p. 25.
- ^ "Dirty Pretty Things top NME Chart of 2006 | NME". NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM. 31 December 2006. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "BBC – Drama – Sorted – About the Show". BBC. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ Ivie, Devon (25 January 2022). "Interview: Carl Barat on The Libertines and Pete Doherty". Vulture. Retrieved 8 May 2022.