Penthouse and Pavement

Penthouse and Pavement
Penthouse and Pavement
Studio album by Heaven 17
Released	18 September 1981
Studio	Townhouse (London); B.E.F.–Maison Rouge (Sheffield); The Garden (London);
Genre	Synth-pop; electropop;
Length	38:12 ¹
Label	Virgin
Producer	British Electric Foundation; Richard Manwaring;
Heaven 17 chronology
Singles from Penthouse and Pavement
	"(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang"; Released: 13 March 1981; "Play to Win"; Released: 28 August 1981; "Penthouse and Pavement"; Released: 30 October 1981; "The Height of the Fighting (He-La-Hu)"; Released: 12 February 1982;

Penthouse and Pavement is the debut studio album by the English synth-pop band Heaven 17, released on 18 September 1981 by Virgin Records.

"(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" was released as a single, but did not achieve chart success, partly due to a ban by the BBC. Despite not generating a major hit single, the album reached no.14 and spent 77 weeks on the UK Albums Chart. It has since been regarded as "an important outing", is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and was re-released in 2010 in a three-disc special edition.