Switch It On
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| Single by Will Young | ||||||||||||
| from the album Keep On | ||||||||||||
| Released | 14 November 2005 | |||||||||||
| Format | CD, Digital download | |||||||||||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||||
| Label | Sony BMG | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Will Young, Stephen Lipson, Ronnie Peterson, Karen Poole and Steven Wolf | |||||||||||
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"Switch It On" is a popular song written by Will Young, Stephen Lipson, Ronnie Peterson, Karen Poole and Steven Wolf, and performed by Will Young. It was released as the first single from Young's third album Keep On, and his eighth single overall. The single reached number five in the UK Singles Chart. The music itself is based on a guitar Bo Diddley riff similar to The Count 5's Psychotic Reaction.
The video for "Switch It On" was directed by Vaughan Arnell and filmed at Thunder City in Cape Town, South Africa. It is a based on the film Top Gun. The video opens with the titles "Will Young in Hot Gun", and features Young in the Tom Cruise fighter pilot role, playing beach volleyball and serenading a woman in a bar.
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