| Surrender | |
| Cover: | swingsurrender.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Swing Out Sister |
| Album: | It's Better to Travel |
| B-Side: | Who's to Blame |
| Released: | 2 January 1987 |
| Recorded: | 1986 |
| Genre: | Synth-pop |
| Label: | Mercury Records |
| Producer: | Paul Staveley O'Duffy |
| Prev Title: | Breakout |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Twilight World |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
"Surrender" is a 1987 single released by British pop act Swing Out Sister from their debut album, It's Better to Travel. It was issued as the follow-up to the successful single, "Breakout". The song peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1987 and logged four weeks in the top ten.[1]
Over a year after its initial release, remixes of "Surrender" reached the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at #22 in May 1988.[2]
The song features a trumpet solo performed by John Thirkell and features Drewery laughing at the beginning of the song.
UK 7" Single
As featured on the UK Best Of CD Album Breakout.
UK 12" Single
Also available from the CD releases of It's Better to Travel & the Japanese CD Album Swing 3.
UK 12" Remix Single
As featured on the Japanese CD Album Another Non-Stop Sister.
US 12" Promo Single
As featured on the "US 12" Single".
Other Version
Also available from the CD album "It's Better to Travel" & "Best of Swing Out Sister".
. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 302.