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"Vanity Kills"
Single by ABC
from the album How to Be a ... Zillionaire!
B-side	"Judy's Jewels"
Released	31 May 1985
Recorded	December 1984
Genre	Synth-pop
Length	3:28
Label	Neutron Mercury Vertigo
Songwriter(s)	Martin Fry Mark White
Producer(s)	Martin Fry Mark White
ABC singles chronology
"Be Near Me" (1985) "Vanity Kills" (1985) "Ocean Blue" (1986)
Music video
"Vanity Kills" on YouTube

"Vanity Kills" is a song by English pop band ABC, released as the third single from their third studio album, How to Be a ... Zillionaire! (1985). It peaked at No. 70 on the UK Singles Chart and reached No. 91 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Composition

The song is in a C key and a major mode with a BPM of 125.

Music video

Two music videos were made by the band ABC. The UK video shows the four band members moving against a dark background, using simple stop motion camera tricks.

The US version, directed by Peter Care, has a spoken prologue and epilogue, and presents Martin Fry and Mark White as noir detectives, investigating a variety of shady characters.

Track listing

• UK 7" Single

1. "Vanity Kills"
2. "Judy's Jewels"

Chart performance

References

1. "Music Week" (PDF). p. 10.
2. Phares, Heather. ABC - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of ABC (2000) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
3. "Vanity Kills". AllMusic.
4. "ABC Chart History". Billboard.
5. Vanity Kills UK Video. MTV. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015.
6. Vanity Kills at IMDb
7. Vanity Kills US Video. MTV. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015.

External links

• Vanity Kills at Discogs (list of releases)

• 1985 songs
• 1985 singles
• ABC (band) songs
• Songs written by Martin Fry
• Songs written by Mark White (musician)
• Mercury Records singles