Send Me An Angel ( Real Life song ) - Wikipedia Send Me An Angel ( Real Life song ) `` Send Me an Angel '' Single by Real Life from the album Heartland B - side `` Like a Gun '' Released May 1983 ( AUS ) November 1983 ( USA ) 1989 ( re-release ) Format 7 '' vinyl 12 '' vinyl Genre Synth - pop new wave Length 3 : 53 Label Curb MCA Songwriter ( s ) David Sterry Richard Zatorski Producer ( s ) Ross Cockle Real Life singles chronology `` Send Me an Angel '' ( 1983 ) `` Catch Me I 'm Falling '' ( 1984 ) `` Send Me an Angel ( 1983 ) `` Catch Me I 'm Falling '' ( 1984 ) `` Send Me an Angel '' is a 1983 song by Australian band Real Life. Initially released on Real Life 's debut album Heartland, it is the band 's best - known song. This version originally peaked in early 1984 in the US at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song 's biggest chart success, however, came in 1989, when an updated version entitled `` 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. Contents 1 Track listing 2 Charts 2.1 Weekly charts 2.2 Year - end charts 3 Cover versions 4 See also 5 References Track listing 7 '' single Send Me an Angel -- 3 : 53 Like a Gun -- 3 : 16 12 '' single Send Me an Angel ( Extended Dance Mix ) -- 5 : 40 Send Me an Angel -- 3 : 53 Like a Gun -- 3 : 14 12 '' Maxi - Single Send Me An Angel ( Extended Mix ) -- 5 : 43 Send Me An Angel -- 3 : 53 Burning Blue -- 4 : 43 Charts Weekly charts Chart ( 1983 -- 1984 ) Peak position Australia ( Kent Music Report ) 6 Austria ( Ö3 Austria Top 40 ) 9 Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) 18 Germany ( Official German Charts ) New Zealand ( Recorded Music NZ ) Spain ( AFYVE ) 19 Switzerland ( Schweizer Hitparade ) US Billboard Hot 100 29 US Cash Box Top 100 22 Year - end charts Chart ( 1983 ) Position New Zealand ( Recorded Music NZ ) 8 Chart ( 1984 ) Position Germany ( Official German Charts ) 7 Switzerland ( Schweizer Hitparade ) 27 Chart ( 1989 ) ( Send Me an Angel ' 89 ) Peak position Australia ( ARIA ) 51 New Zealand ( RIANZ ) 22 US Billboard Hot 100 26 US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 5 US Billboard Hot Dance Music / Maxi - Singles Sales 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 See also List of number - one hits of 1984 ( Germany ) List of number - one singles from the 1980s ( New Zealand ) References Jump up ^ `` Real Life -- Send Me An Angel / Like A Gun -- Wheatley -- Australia -- WRS - 001 ''. 45cat. Retrieved 10 April 2015. Jump up ^ `` Real Life -- Send Me An Angel / Like A Gun -- MCA / Curb -- USA -- MCA - 52287 ''. 45cat. Retrieved 10 April 2015. Jump up ^ `` Real Life ''. Chaos Control. 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2013. Jump up ^ Matheson, Whitney ( 24 April 2014 ). `` My favorite ' 80s New Wave song is... '' USA Today. Retrieved 8 May 2015. ^ Jump up to : Whitburn, Joel ( 2010 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits ( 9th ed. ). Billboard Books. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8230 - 8554 - 5. Jump up ^ Hooton, Christopher ( 18 November 2014 ). `` GTA 5 PS4 / Xbox One gets new songs from Lorde, Kendrick Lamar, Danny Brown and more ''. The Independent. Retrieved 21 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Forum -- ARIA Charts : Special Occasion Charts -- Chart Positions Pre 1989 ''. Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` Austriancharts.at -- Real Life -- Send Me An Angel '' ( in German ). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` Top RPM Singles : Issue 6277. '' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` Offiziellecharts.de -- Real Life -- Send Me An Angel ''. GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` Charts.nz -- Real Life -- Send Me An Angel ''. Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ Salaverri, Fernando ( September 2005 ). Sólo éxitos : año a año, 1959 -- 2002 ( in Spanish ) ( 1st ed. ). Spain : Fundación Autor - SGAE. ISBN 84 - 8048 - 639 - 2. Jump up ^ `` Swisscharts.com -- Real Life -- Send Me An Angel ''. Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 24 July 2013. ^ Jump up to : `` Real Life -- Awards ''. AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 17 June 2013. Jump up ^ `` CASH BOX Top 100 Singles -- Week ending FEBRUARY 25, 1984 ''. Cash Box. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Jump up ^ `` End of Year Charts 1983 ''. Recorded Music New Zealand. Retrieved 10 February 2018. Jump up ^ `` Jahrescharts -- 1984 ''. Offiziellecharts.de ( in German ). GfK Entertainment Charts. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Jump up ^ `` Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1984 ''. Hitparade.ch ( in German ). Retrieved 10 February 2018. Jump up ^ `` Chartifacts : Week Ending September 23 1990 Issue No. 37 ''. Imgur ( original document published by ARIA ). Retrieved 24 August 2016. Jump up ^ `` charts.org.nz -- Real Life -- Send Me An Angel ' 89 ''. Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 June 2013. Jump up ^ `` CASH BOX Top 100 Singles -- Week ending JULY 22, 1989 ''. Cash Box. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Jump up ^ `` Netzwerk -- Send Me an Angel ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 29 September 2013. Jump up ^ `` Pobi -- Send Me an Angel ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 29 September 2013. Jump up ^ `` Atrocity -- Werk 80 Festival Edition ''. AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ Anderson, Jason. `` Zeromancer -- Eurotrash ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ Loftus, Johnny. `` Thrice -- If We Could Only See Us Now ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` Deadstar Assembly -- Deadstar Assembly ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` The Quakes -- Psyops ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` Dirty on Purpose -- Like Bees ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` NES Me An Angel from Retrocovered by Inverse Phase ''. Inverse Phase. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Jump up ^ Childers, Chad ( 18 November 2016 ). `` Highly Suspect, ' The Boy Who Died Wolf ' -- Album Review ''. Loudwire. Retrieved 28 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` The Struggle by XO Stereo ( Another Century Records ) ''. HighWire Daze. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2017. Real Life Studio albums Heartland Flame Lifetime Happy Singles `` Send Me an Angel '' `` Catch Me I 'm Falling '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Send_Me_an_Angel_(Real_Life_song)&oldid=847438724 '' Categories : 1983 songs 1983 singles 1989 singles Real Life ( band ) songs Curb Records singles MCA Records singles Number - one singles in Germany Number - one singles in New Zealand Hidden categories : CS1 Spanish - language sources ( es ) CS1 German - language sources ( de ) Use dmy dates from June 2011 Use Australian English from June 2011 All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Austria Singlechart usages for Canadatopsingles Singlechart called without artist Singlechart called without song Singlechart usages for Germany2 Singlechart usages for New Zealand Singlechart usages for Switzerland Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 25 June 2018, at 10 : 57 ( UTC ). 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Question: who sings send me an angel right now
Answer: Australian band Real Life