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1998 single by Lenny Kravitz

1998 single past Lenny Kravitz

"Fly Away"
Lenny Fly Away.jpg

Standard non-Usa artwork
Single by Lenny Kravitz
from the album 5
Released November nine, 1998 (1998-11-09) [one]
Genre
  • Funk rock[2]
  • alternative stone[three]
Length
  • 3:41 (anthology version)
  • three:06 (radio edit)
Label Virgin
Songwriter(s) Lenny Kravitz
Producer(south) Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz singles chronology
"I Belong to You lot"
(1998) 		"Wing Abroad"
(1998) 		"American Woman"
(1999)
Music video
"Fly Away" on YouTube

"Wing Abroad" is a song by American vocalizer Lenny Kravitz. It was released as the fourth unmarried from his fifth studio album, 5 (1998). Released on Nov 9, 1998, "Fly Away" peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, "Wing Away" topped the charts in Republic of iceland and the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and peaked inside the tiptop ten of the charts in several countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Republic of Republic of ireland. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Performance in 1999.

Groundwork [edit]

"Fly Away" emerged from Kravitz testing an amp that was brought to the studio. After plugging in the available guitar, Kravitz started playing the vocal, stating, "I was listening to the way dissimilar chords were ringing, just moving between A, C, Yard and D, and the next matter I knew I was telling the engineer to claw upwardly the mics and record."[4]

Past the time he wrote "Fly Away", Kravitz had already turned in the completed album to Virgin Records, and he considered releasing the song as a b-side. Nonetheless, afterward playing the vocal for a friend, they responded, "If you don't put it on the anthology, I'm gonna be and so pissed off at you." Later Kravitz contacted his label virtually the inclusion of the song, they were reluctant, only he sent them the vocal anyway. Upon hearing the rail, they added it to the album.[5]

Critical reception [edit]

Birmingham Evening Postal service commented, "If you watch Boob tube you'll already be familiar with this - information technology's the song from the Peugeot TV ad which seems to have rarely been off the screen during the past few weeks. Information technology'southward about time Kravitz returned to the big fourth dimension - retrieve when he sold out the NEC in `91? - and this could see him back in the nautical chart large time."[6]

Chart performance [edit]

"Fly Away" reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped both the Mainstream Stone and Modern Stone Tracks charts.[vii] [8] [nine] On Canada's RPM Peak Singles chart, "Fly Away" reached number three and stayed in the top xx for 6 weeks.[ten] Outside North America, the song reached number i in Iceland and on the Britain Singles Chart;[xi] [12] its success in the UK is attributed to its appearance in a television advertisement for the Peugeot 206 Supermini car.[13] In Australia and New Zealand, "Fly Away" peaked at number 8 and was certified Gold in both countries.[ane] [14] [xv] [xvi] The song helped to aggrandize the success of his fifth studio album, five, in Europe and earned Kravitz a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best Male Rock Operation, his start of four consecutive wins in this category.[17]

Music video [edit]

The music video for the unmarried was directed past American manager Paul Hunter. It features Kravitz and his ring playing in a club, surrounded past a crowd dancing to the vocal, with some of them having fun and others making out. Special effects were added to the video to make it wait beat upward and grainy. A girl in the crowd is briefly shown topless several times during the video. The video is featured on the DVD for Kravitz's Greatest Hits anthology tour edition.

Kravitz too appears in a 2010 video in which he joined the Voice of Praise Choir from the Offset Baptist Church building of Lewisville, Texas, as they performed "Fly Away" on a street in New Orleans.[18]

Track listings [edit]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

In popular culture [edit]

"Wing Abroad" was featured in the film Coyote Ugly and is the theme song for the Canadian reality television series Ice Pilots NWT.

In 2018, it is used in the Comic Con Trailer for Star Trek: Discovery Flavor 2.

After the 1999 NBA Finals, NBC used "Fly Away" for their montage.

This vocal was used in a Renault Squeegee advertizing and several Nissan commercials.

Internet personality Neil Cicierega fabricated a lyric video of the vocal with the vocal tracks heavily contradistinct,[52] which received coverage from several websites.[53] [54] [55]

The vocal has been used in a tourism entrada for The Commonwealth of the bahamas, featuring Kravitz who is of Bahamian descent.[56]

References [edit]

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