What's Your Name?

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What's Your Name?
Song	What's Your Name?
By	Depeche Mode
Songwriter	Vince Clarke
Working title	"Pretty Boy"
Produced by	Depeche Mode Daniel Miller
Recorded at	Blackwing Studios (London)
Length (mm:ss)	2:41
Tempo	157 BPM
Time signature	4 4
Key	A Major
Engineered by	Eric Radcliffe John Fryer
Originally released	6 November 1981
Live performances as Depeche Mode	57 times *
Total live performances	57 times *

"What's Your Name?" is a song from the 1981 album Speak & Spell by Depeche Mode.

Notes

Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher confirmed in a 2005 interview for Channel 4's Popworld and in numerous subsequent interviews that the Clarke-penned 'What's Your Name?' is their least favourite Depeche Mode song.

A working title for this song was "Pretty Boy" and Dave refers to the song by this title during several gigs during the autumn dates of the 1981 Tour.

Lyrics

What's Your Name

Sometimes watch you walk the street at midnight

Sometimes I can feel you in the air

Looking good

Knew you would

All the time I understood

Hey, you're such a pretty boy

Hey, you're such a pretty boy

Hey, you're such a pretty boy

You're so pretty

Everybody seems to look your way now

(Everybody seems to look your way)

Everybody wants to know your name

(Hey, hey, what's your name)

Feeling right

Just tonight

Hear them say you're out of sight

All the boys we got to get together

All the boys together we can stand

We can go

Never know

All the things we need to show

Hey you're such a pretty boy (you're so pretty)

Hey you're such a pretty boy (you're so pretty)

Hey you're such a pretty boy

You're so pretty (p-r-e, double-t-y)

Songwriter: Vince Clarke
Publishing Information: ©1981 Musical Moments Ltd./Sony Music Publishing Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "What's Your Name?"

Main article: List of dates where "What's Your Name?" was played