Penthouse and Pavement

Penthouse and Pavement
Studio album by
Heaven 17
ReleasedSeptember 1981 (1981-09)
Studio
Genre
Length38:12 ¹
LabelVirgin
Producer
Heaven 17 chronology
Penthouse and Pavement
(1981) 		The Luxury Gap
(1983)
Singles from Penthouse and Pavement
  1. "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang"
    Released: March 1981
  2. "Play to Win"
    Released: August 1981
  3. "Penthouse and Pavement"
    Released: November 1981
  4. "The Height of the Fighting (He-La-Hu)"
    Released: February 1982

Penthouse and Pavement is the debut studio album by English synth-pop band Heaven 17, released in September 1981 by Virgin Records.

"(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" was released as a single, but did not achieve chart success, partly due to a ban by the BBC.[4] Despite not generating a major hit single, the album reached no.14 and spent 77 weeks on the UK Albums Chart.[5] It has since been regarded as "an important outing",[2] is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and was re-released in 2010 in a three-disc special edition.

  1. ^ Borthwick, Stuart; Moy, Rob (2004). Popular Music Genres: an Introduction. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-7486-1745-0.
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  3. ^ "Top 15 Electropop Albums". Classic Pop. 25 August 2021.
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