This article is about the Bronski Beat song. For the Dustin Lynch song, see Small Town Boy (song). For other uses, see Small Town Boy (disambiguation).
"Smalltown Boy"
Single by Bronski Beat
from the album The Age of Consent
B-side
"Memories"
"Infatuation" (12")
Released
25 May 1984 (UK)[1]
Studio
The Garden (London)
Genre
Synth-pop[2][3]
hi-NRG[4][5]
disco[5][6]
Length
5:02 (album version)
3:58 (single version)
9:00 (12" version)
Label
London
Songwriter(s)
Steve Bronski
Jimmy Somerville
Larry Steinbachek
Producer(s)
Mike Thorne
Bronski Beat singles chronology
"Smalltown Boy" (1984)
"Why?" (1984)
Music video
"Smalltown Boy" on YouTube
"Smalltown Boy" is the debut single by the British synth-pop band Bronski Beat, released in May 1984. The lyrics describe a young gay man who is forced to leave home.
^"New Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 19 May 1984. p. 14. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^Vivinetto, Gina (9 March 2015). "Pop Icon Jimmy Somerville: A Career Overview". The Advocate. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
^MarkWilson (18 May 2011). "Emilie Simon Releases "Smalltown Boy"". AltSounds. Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
^Walters, Barry (20 June 2000). "His beat goes on". The Advocate. p. 115. ISSN 0001-8996. As Bronski Beat's falsetto leader, Somerville made gay politics a hot pop topic with such hi-NRG dance floor staples as "Why?" and "Smalltown Boy"
^ abAdam Block (9 December 1986). "A Clarion Call from England's Communards: Syl's New "Attraction"" (PDF). The Advocate. Retrieved 23 December 2022. The trio had met as friends and performed as a hoot, but their first single, "Smalltown Boy" (an autobiographical tale of a gay youth fleeing homophobia for the tolerance of the big city), became a Hi-NRG disco fave on both sides of the Atlantic.
^"Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat". BBC. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
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