Send Me an Angel (Real Life song)
"Send Me an Angel" is a 1983 song by Australian band Real Life. The song was released in May 1983 as the band's debut single from their debut studio album Heartland. The song peaked in the top 10 in Australia and is the band's best-known song. This version peaked in early 1984 in the US at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was No. 1 in Germany and New Zealand and Top 10 in other countries.
The song's biggest chart success, in the US, came in 1989, when an updated version titled "Send Me an Angel '89" surpassed the original version from 1983. "Send Me An Angel '89" reached a peak of No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the summer of 1989 in the US.
The song appears on the Non-Stop-Pop in-game radio station in the PC/Xbox One/PS4 versions of the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V.
Track listing
;7" single- Send Me an Angel – 3:53
- Like a Gun – 3:16
;12" single
- Send Me an Angel – 5:40
- Send Me an Angel – 3:53
- Like a Gun – 3:14
- Send Me An Angel – 5:43
- Send Me An Angel – 3:53
- Burning Blue – 4:43
Charts
Weekly charts
| Chart | Peak position |
| Australia | 6 |
Year-end charts
| Chart | Position |
| Germany | 7 |
| Switzerland | 27 |
| Chart | Peak position |
| Australia | 51 |
| New Zealand | 22 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 26 |
| US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 5 |
| US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | 3 |
| US Cash Box | 20 |
Cover versions
"Send Me an Angel" has been covered by various artists including:- Netzwerk on their 1992 EP Send Me an Angel
- Pobi on her 1993 album Send Me An Angel
- Atrocity on their 1997 cover album Werk 80
- Zeromancer on their 2001 album Eurotrash
- Thrice for the 2002 compilation Punk Goes Pop, which later appears on the 2005 compilation If We Could Only See Us Now
- Deadstar Assembly on their 2003 self-titled debut album
- The Quakes on their 2005 album Psyops
- Dirty on Purpose on their 2008 EP Like Bees
- Inverse Phase released "NES Me An Angel" on the 2012 chiptune album Retrocovered
- Highly Suspect on their 2016 album The Boy Who Died Wolf
- XO Stereo on their 2015 EP The Struggle