Tenderness (song)

"Tenderness"
"Tenderness"
Single by General Public
from the album All the Rage
Released	May 1984
Recorded	1983
Genre	New wave; rock;
Length	3:35
Label	I.R.S.
Songwriter(s)	Mickey Billingham; Ranking Roger; Dave Wakeling;
General Public singles chronology
Music video
	"Tenderness" on YouTube

"Tenderness" is a song by English new wave band General Public, released as a single in May 1984 from their debut studio album All the Rage (1984) by I.R.S. Records.

Content

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".

Charts

Chart (1984–1985)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	50
Canadian Singles Chart	11
UK Singles Chart^[4]	95
US Billboard Hot 100^[5]	27
US Billboard Dance/Disco^[6]	15
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks	39

Popular culture

This song was featured in the 1995 film Clueless during the bouquet-catching scene at the end of the movie.
It was also used in the John Hughes films Sixteen Candles
The song was heard in the film, Weird Science.
It has also been featured in the US TV show The Goldbergs.
The song is heard during a New Year's Eve party scene in the episode "The Camera Loves You" of The Deuce

References

^ "Oberhofer Talks Totally Tubular Covers of Cars, Cyndi Lauper, Wang Chung for 'Table 19' Soundtrack"."...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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[1] "Oberhofer Talks Totally Tubular Covers of Cars, Cyndi Lauper, Wang Chung for 'Table 19' Soundtrack"."...a mixtape of classic 1980s new wave tunes from Cyndi Lauper, A Flock of Seagulls, General Public and Modern English"

[RS_1984-2] 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...

[auchart-3] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

[4] "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved February 9, 2022.

[5] Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 333.

[6] Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 109.

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v t e General Public
Dave Wakeling Ranking Roger Mickey Billingham Horace Panter Andy "Stoker" Growcott Mick Jones
Studio albums	All the Rage Hand to Mouth Rub It Better
Compilation albums	Classic Masters
Singles	"Tenderness" "I'll Take You There"