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Encyclopedia > Breakfast at Tiffany's (song)
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Single by Deep Blue Something
from the album 11th Song, Home, Byzantium
Released 1993
Genre Post-grunge / Shoegaze

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a song by American rock band Deep Blue Something, released in 1995 on their album Home. The song is a reference to the classic Audrey Hepburn movie of the same name, and is sung from the perspective of a young man faced with a potential break-up with his girlfriend. Desperate to find common ground, the singer can only think of a vague memory that they both like the film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and argues that that tenuous link between the lovers should serve as enough motivation for them to work out their problems and stay together as a couple. A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Deep Blue Something is an American rock band best known for its hit single Breakfast at Tiffanys. ... Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ... For other uses of Breakfast at Tiffanys, see Breakfast at Tiffanys (disambiguation). ...


The film Roman Holiday inspired the lyrics of the song but the author, Todd David Pipes, thought that one of Hepburn's other films would make a better song title.[1] Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy. ...


In 1996, the song reached the top five in the United States and number one in the United Kingdom.

Preceded by
"Ready Or Not" by The Fugees
UK Singles Chart Number 1 single
September 29, 1996 for 1 week
Succeeded by
"Setting Sun" by Chemical Brothers featuring Noel Gallagher

Ready or Not is the second single from The Fugees highly succesful album, The Score. ... The Fugees are a critically acclaimed music band from the United States, popular during the mid-1990s, whose repertoire includes primarily hip hop, with elements of soul, and Caribbean music (particularly reggae). ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ... This is a list of the number one singles on the UK Singles Chart, during the 1990s. ... is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Setting Sun is a song by The Chemical Brothers, released as a single in 1996 and on their second album Dig Your Own Hole in 1997. ... The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo, comprised of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. ... Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Burnage, Manchester, England) is an English songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the Manchester rock band Oasis. ...

References

  1. ^ British Hit Singles & Albums (Edition 18), Guinness World Records Limited


 
 

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