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Revision as of 08:04, 27 October 2025
1984 single by General Public
“Tenderness” is a song by the English new wave band General Public, released as a single in May 1984 by I.R.S. Records from their debut studio album All the Rage (1984).
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The song’s lyrics tell about a man who really needs tenderness to feel like a man. It was one of the band’s first singles. The single cover of the extended versions has a sentence reading “words like conviction can turn into a sentence”.
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- ^ “Oberhofer Talks Totally Tubular Covers of Cars, Cyndi Lauper, Wang Chung for ‘Table 19’ Soundtrack”. Billboard.“…a mixtape of classic 1980s new wave tunes from Cyndi Lauper, A Flock of Seagulls, General Public and Modern English”
- ^ Rolling Stone Staff (September 17, 2014). “100 Best Singles of 1984: Pop’s Greatest Year”. Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
…the track not only laid out the funny-cry-happy appeal of early modern rock, it set the table for similarly quasi-triumphant tracks…
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ “officialcharts.com”. officialcharts.com. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955–2012. Record Research. p. 333.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 109.
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