LONDON BOYS - CHINESE RADIO

CHINESE RADIO

LONDON BOYS

SONGWRITERS: RALF & RENE MAUE

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: THE TWELVE COMMANDMENTS OF DANCE

LABEL: ULTRAPHONE

GENRE: DANCE

YEAR: 1989

London Boys were a German-based English dance-pop duo composed of Edem Ephraim (born 1 July 1959 in London, England – 21 January 1996) and Dennis Fuller (born 19 June 1959 in Jamaica – 21 January 1996). They are best remembered for the UK Top 5 hits "Requiem" and "London Nights".

The duo were killed as they were travelling and their car was hit by a drunk driver in the Eastern Alps, Austria, on 21 January 1996. Ephraim's wife also died in the accident, leaving their three-year-old son without parents and leaving Fuller's 10-year-old daughter without a father.

The Twelve Commandments of Dance is the debut album by German-based English dance-pop duo London Boys, released in 1989. It reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for 29 weeks.

Other than the charting singles stated in the track listing, two other singles were released: "I'm Gonna Give My Heart" and "Dance Dance Dance".

It was back in '69, like a night mare cryin'

In a hotel bed on the coast

Happy Shanghai girls

Like a pretty string of pearls

And a snow storm up in my nose

I was on my way to heaven, with a funky red 11

And a switchblade job on the side

Hear the music playin' and my heartbeat prayin'

To the airways out in the night

Ouh, radio! I love my radio! My chinese radio

Ouh, radio! I love my radio! My chinese radio

Ouh

Oh, I could write a million stories

Tales of love and hate and pain

And my fears would truly frighten

Any ordinary man

Is there someone out there laughing!

Walking in the pouring rain,

Lord, I'm sure I know the answers

But it's too hard

To explain

Now my head is burning, an' I feel it turning

In an igloo up on the moon

Saying: Lord, have mercy on a guy from Jersey

And it falls back into my room

Just a stranded tourist

An' I wouldn't touch the purest

If I ever get out here alive

While the FM-switches and the green-light digits

Keep in touch with the world outside

Just a river on the run, now

I'm flyin' and I won't touch down

Got nowhere left to run

I get on my knees and pray!