You're My Heart, You're My Soul
You're My Heart, You're My Soul is a 1984 Euro-disco song by Modern Talking, written by Dieter Bohlen under the pseudonym Steve Benson.
Genesis
In his biography Nichts als die Wahrheit (Nothing but the truth) Dieter Bohlen describes that the title was originally My Love is Gone and that the basic idea for the song came to him on Mallorca on the beach. He thought this title was boring and decided on You're My Heart, You're My Soul. In the Hamburg recording studio "Studio 33", founded in March 1984, he played Thomas Anders his prepared demo recording, co-producer Luis Rodriguez started the 24-track Revox tape machine. During the recording of the melody, which was in C-sharp minor, a comb filter effect occurred. After lengthy attempts at correction, Bohlen and his co-producer Luis Rodriguez had no choice but to mix the song as it was. According to Bohlen the production cost 1,400 DM, the sale to BMG brought in 10,000 DM. Bohlen played all instruments himself, he used the synthesizer Prophet-5 of the company Sequential Circuits.
Piano and synth from You're My Heart, You're My Soul
Publication and success
The single You're My Heart, You're My Soul / You're My Heart, You're My Soul (instrumental version) (Hansa 106 884) was released on October 29, 1984, initially failing to achieve success. It was not until 21 January 1985, when the TV music programme Formel Eins presented the music video shot by Michael Leckebusch in the studios of RTL Television, that the song reached position 38 in the German charts. On 28 January 1985 it reached position 9, and on 4 March 1985 it rose to number one, where it remained for six weeks. By November 1985, a total of 250,000 copies had crossed the counter in Germany, and 715,000 in France. The song became a number one hit especially in Austria (4 weeks), Switzerland (5 weeks), Belgium (5 weeks) and Finland (4 weeks). With more than eight million units sold worldwide, the single received gold records in Germany, Belgium, France, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland, the song went platinum in Denmark and double platinum in South Africa. This made Modern Talking's first single also the most successful in the duo's discography.
In 1985, Modern Talking won Radio Luxemburg's Golden Lion with the song. On 30 November 1985, Modern Talking also performed the song in Peter's Pop Show on ZDF in front of an audience of millions.
On March 16, 1998, Modern Talking released a remake titled You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98, which also sold successfully. To reunite the duo enlisted rapper Eric Singleton and landed at #2 on the singles chart. The accompanying album, Back for Good, reached the top of the album charts and sold 5.7 million copies.
