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"You're a Woman" is a song by the pop group
Bad Boys Blue Bad Boys Blue are the German pop group formed in Cologne in 1984. The group performed many international hits including "You're a Woman", " Pretty Young Girl", " I Wanna Hear Your Heartbeat", and "Come Back and Stay". The group became massive ...
. It was released as a single in 1985 and was a hit across Europe, reaching number 8 in
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, number 1 in
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and number 2 in
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Track listing

7" single (Coconut 107 276, 1985)Discogs
/ref> # "You're a Woman" - 3:57 # "You're a Woman" (Instrumental) - 4:40 12" single (Coconut 601 673, 1985) # "You're a Woman" (Long Version) - 5:57 # "You're a Woman" (Instrumental) - 3:49


Prudence Liew version

In 1986, the song was covered under the title "最後一夜 (The Last Night)" with different lyrics in
Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...
and
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and released as a single by Hong Kong pop singer
Prudence Liew Prudence Liew Mei-Gwan (born 10 December 1964) is a Hong Kong pop singer and actress. A Golden Horse Award winner and platinum selling singer, she has released 16 studio albums and appeared in numerous films. Career From the age of eight, she ...
. It was the second single from the album ''
Prudence Liew Prudence Liew Mei-Gwan (born 10 December 1964) is a Hong Kong pop singer and actress. A Golden Horse Award winner and platinum selling singer, she has released 16 studio albums and appeared in numerous films. Career From the age of eight, she ...
''. The track featured a heavy dance beat that proved to be very popular with the Hong Kong
disco Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pia ...
scene. The popularity of this song propelled Liew's status in the music scene and it is still considered to be her
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.Muzikland review of Prudence Liew (album).
Retrieved on October 17, 2009


"You're a Woman '98"

Bad Boys Blue released a new version of the song under the title "You're a Woman '98" as a single in 1998. It was the lead single from their album ''Back''. This re-release reached number 52 in
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and number 4 in
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Prudence Liew version 2

On May 22, 2008, Prudence Liew released a
ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...
version of her song " 最後一夜 (The Last Night)" as a single from her 2008 live album '' Opening the Sexual Boundaries Concert CD''.


"You’re a Woman 2015"

On June 12, 2015, Coconut Music / Pokorny Music Solutions / Sony Music released the 30th anniversary single titled "You're a Woman 2015" including remixes produced by High Tide, Andy Matern, Split Mirrors, Krzysiek Palich and Adam Pokorny.


Charts (Bad Boys Blue)


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


References


External links

* {{Prudence Liew 1985 songs 1985 singles 1986 singles 2008 singles Bad Boys Blue songs Prudence Liew songs Songs with lyrics by Mary Susan Applegate Songs written by Tony Hendrik