This Is Mine

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox song | name = This Is Mine | cover = Heaven17thisisminesingle.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Heaven 17 | album = How Men Are | B-side = Skin | released = {{Start date|1984|10|15|df=y}} | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = * Synth-pop * new wave | length = 3:20 | label = * Virgin * Arista | writer = * Glenn Gregory * Ian Craig Marsh * Martyn Ware | producer = * Martyn Ware * Greg Walsh | prev_title = Sunset Now | prev_year = 1984 | next_title = ...(And That's No Lie) | next_year = 1985 | misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|adynNYx0NbI|"This Is Mine"}}}} }} "'''This Is Mine'''" is a song by the English synth-pop band Heaven 17, released on 15 October 1984 by Virgin Records as the second single from their third studio album, ''How Men Are'' (1984).<ref>{{cite magazine |title=News |magazine=Number One |date=13 October 1984 |issue=70 |page=5 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Number-One/1984/No1!-1984-10-13-OCR.pdf |via=World Radio History |access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref> It was written by Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware, and produced by Ware and Greg Walsh. The song reached No. 23 on the UK singles chart, remaining in the charts for seven weeks. It would be the band's last Top 30 single until 1992's "Temptation (Brothers in Rhythm Remix)"<ref name="officialcharts">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18889/heaven-17/|publisher=officialcharts.com|title=HEAVEN 17 | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company|access-date=2016-11-09}}</ref>

== Music video == The accompanying music video for the track featured Gregory, Ware and Marsh plotting and robbing a bank. The video was filmed at Exmouth Market in London. The bank building that featured in the video is now a Caffè Nero coffeehouse. The video ends with the trio throwing cash from a helicopter over London.

== Critical reception == On its release, DJ Mark Hollis, writing for the ''Daily Mirror'', praised "This Is Mine" as the band's "best single so far" and noted the "brass sound is tremendous". He predicted the song would reach the UK top five.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hollis |first=Mark |date=16 October 1984 |title=Mark Hollis's Top Tips |newspaper=Daily Mirror |page=21}}</ref> Frank Edmonds of the ''Bury Free Press'' gave it a 9 out of 10 rating and wrote, "This is an excellent piece of catchy pop. Bright and breezy brass, blaring trumpets and a superb melody make this one not to miss."<ref>{{cite news |last=Edmonds |first=Frank |date=19 October 1984 |title=Soundscene |newspaper=Bury Free Press |page=10}}</ref> Paul Benbow of the ''Reading Evening Post'' described it as "brassy but a bit slow", and considered it a return to the sound of the band's debut studio album ''Penthouse and Pavement'' (1981).<ref>{{cite news |last=Benbow |first=Paul |date=3 November 1984 |title=Singles |newspaper=Reading Evening Post |page=4}}</ref>

== Formats == '''7-inch single''' # "This Is Mine" – 3:20 # "Skin" – 3:40

'''12-inch single''' # "This Is Mine" (Filmix) – 7:18 # "This Is Mine" (Cinemix) – 8:55 # "Skin" – 3:40

'''12-inch single (UK release)''' # "This Is Mine" (Extended version) – 5:39 # "Skin" – 3:39 # "Mine" – 5:04

'''12-inch single (US promo)''' # "This Is Mine" (Filmix) – 7:18 # "This Is Mine" (Radio version) – 3:20 # "This Is Mine" (Cinemix) – 7:25

== Personnel == Credits sourced from the original album liner notes.

'''Heaven 17''' * Glenn Gregory – lead and backing vocals * Martyn Ware – Roland System 100 bass synthesizer, LinnDrum programming, backing vocals, producer * Ian Craig Marsh – Fairlight CMI and Roland System 100 synthesizers

'''Additional personnel''' * Greg Walsh – Roland System 100 bass synthesizer, Fairlight CMI programming, producer * Don Myrick – saxophone (tenor solo) * Michael Harris – flugelhorn * The Phenix Horns – horns * Mike Prior – photography

== Charts == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Chart (1984) ! Peak<br>position |- | align="left" | Irish Singles Chart<ref>{{cite web|author=Jaclyn Ward|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |title=The Irish Charts - All there is to know |publisher=Irishcharts.ie |access-date=2012-06-23}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;" | 25 |- | align="left" | UK singles chart<ref name="officialcharts"/> | style="text-align:center;" | 23 |- | align="left" | US ''Billboard'' Dance/Club Play Singles<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/heaven-17-mn0000668922/awards |title=Heaven 17: Awards |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2024-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118073245/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/heaven-17-mn0000668922/awards |archive-date=2013-01-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;" | 28 |}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:This Is Mine}} Category:1984 songs Category:1984 singles Category:Heaven 17 songs Category:Songs written by Martyn Ware Category:Songs written by Glenn Gregory Category:Songs written by Ian Craig Marsh Category:Virgin Records singles Category:Arista Records singles