Robbed Hit of the Week 10/21/13: Chris De Burgh's "High On Emotion"...

Chris De Burgh - "High On Emotion"
from the album Man On The Line (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #44

This week's "robbed hit" is by the British/Irish noble son turned rock singer Chris De Burgh, who had his American breakthrough in 1983 with the dramatic pop hit "Don't Pay The Ferryman". A year later he released his seven studio album Man On The Line. The first single released from the set was the more positive, anthemic "High On Emotion", which he wrote and had produced by Rupert Hine (The Fixx, Howard Jones)...

"High On Emotion" just missed out on the top-40 in both American and Britain, peaking at #44 in both countries. However, in Canada is went all the way to #11, while peaking a notch under that in Germany, and reaching the top-5 in Ireland.

In a couple of years, though, he would make up for that with a song about a particular "lady" that would be a huge American success.

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..and here's Chris on tour back in the mid-80s..

...and again in 2001 at the Proms...