''Never Even Told Me Her Name'' is a song by

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-based band

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taken from their debut

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Fractured Life ''Fractured Life'' is the debut album by English alternative rock band Air Traffic. It was released on 2 July 2007 on the Tiny Consumer label, an imprint of EMI. The album contains UK Top 40 hit "Charlotte" as well as other singles "Just Abuse M ...

'', released on 2 July 2007. It was the first song from the band to be added to the influential BBC Radio 1 playlist, where it was added to the 1-Up-front playlist, as well as being crowned "Hottest Record In The World" AND "Single Of The Week" by Radio 1's Zane Lowe. It was released as an EP along with 3 other songs from the album on 30 October 2006, as the band's first release with EMI Records. "Time Goes By" is found on the EP as an acoustic version, and would later be re-recorded with the full band for the album. One of these tracks, a

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named " Shooting Star", would later be re-recorded and re-released as a single on 18 June 2007. The artwork for the EP was designed by the band, and photographed in the Recording Studio where they were currently recording their debut album, Fractured Life, in Rockfield Studio, Monmouth, Wales. Due to being an EP, "Never Even Told Me Her Name" was ineligible to enter the

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. It was released as a CD, download, and limited edition, numbered double 7" vinyl.

Track listings

CD (B000JBWUQW) #"Never Even Told Me Her Name" (2:42) #"Get In Line" (2:05) #"Time Goes By (acoustic)" (2:48) #" Shooting Star (demo)" (4:00) {{Air Traffic 2006 EPs