"Hell in Paradise" | ||||||||||||||
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Single by Yoko Ono | ||||||||||||||
from the album Starpeace | ||||||||||||||
Released | 13 October 1985 | |||||||||||||
Format | 7", 12" | |||||||||||||
Recorded | 1984 | |||||||||||||
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Label | Polydor | |||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Yoko Ono | |||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Yoko Ono | |||||||||||||
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"Hell in Paradise" is a song by Yoko Ono from the 1985 album Starpeace. The lyrics are about mankind's perceived idea of hell, despite living in the paradise that Ono considers to be planet Earth. After "Walking on Thin Ice", it was her biggest hit of the 1980s, charting at number 16 on the US dance chart. Ono went on hiatus after Starpeace; this would be her last proper single until 2001's remix of "Open Your Box".
In 2004, the track was revived as part of the ONO remix project, and reached number 4 on the same chart twenty years on. In 2016, the song was re-released by the ONO project again, featuring remixes by Dave Audé and others. It reached number 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart.
The video was directed by Polish filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczyński. The music video won the award "Most Innovative Video" at Billboard Music Video Awards in 1986.