The Slightest Touch
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| "The Slightest Touch" | ||
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| Single by Five Star | ||
| from the album Silk And Steel | ||
| Released | March 23, 1987 | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 4:01 | |
| Label | RCA/Ariola, Tent | |
| Writer(s) | Michael Jay, Marvin Morrow | |
| Producer(s) | Buster Pearson, Michael Jay | |
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| Five Star singles chronology | ||
| Stay Out Of My Life (1987) |
The Slightest Touch (1987) |
Whenever You're Ready (1987) |
"The Slightest Touch" is the name of a 1987 hit single by British pop group Five Star, peaking at UK #4 in April of that year and later becoming their third biggest-selling 7 inch with over 175,000 sales recorded. It spent a total of 10 weeks inside the UK top 75, four of those inside the top 10.
The single was the sixth UK release from their number one selling LP 'Silk And Steel' which was released in the Autumn of 1986. All of the releases from this album were big hits for the group.
Five Star chose to use legendary remixer Shep Pettibone, who also worked with Madonna, to remix the album version of the song into a disco-friendly upbeat dance number. (They later used his remixed version of their single "Somewhere Somebody", a pop/rock number, in the same way, although the album version of this track eventually became the best known of the two.)
The video, bizarrely, shows the band at a market, and lead vocalist Denise becomes the target of a mad scientist who captures her and performs experiments while the rest of the group watch through the window, bemused by what is happening. Just before the release of this single, the group won Best British Group at the BPI awards ceremony which spurred it on to a high chart position in the UK.
"The Slightest Touch" is the only Five Star song to have been covered by another artist. Louise covered the track for her Greatest Hits album in 2001. The remix was based on the Shep remix and was not released as a single.
Tent Records released a promotional remix of "The Slightest Touch" in September 2005.
