"Guaranteed" is a song by English musical group Level 42

Level 42

Level 42 are an English pop rock and jazz-funk band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s.The band gained fame for their high-calibre musicianship—in particular that of Mark King, whose percussive slap-bass guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the...

. It was released in 1991 in the album with the same name, Guaranteed

Guaranteed (Level 42 album)

Guaranteed is the ninth studio album by the British musical group Level 42, released in 1991, their first album of the 1990s. The album was released by RCA records and it was the first Level 42 studio album released by a label other than Polydor....

. It is the first single of the decade

Decade

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 of 1990, two years before the last single released by Level 42, "Take Care of Yourself

Take Care of Yourself

"Take Care Of Yourself" is a song released by the British pop/jazz-funk group Level 42 in 1989. The song was released on the compilation Level Best. It was the last song recorded with guitarist Alan Murphy in the band, who died on October 19, 1989 of AIDS...

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Song

The song is written by Mark King, Mike Lindup, Gary Husband, and Wally Badarou, producer and secondary composer and musician of the group. Have a great drum and bass performance. Is a jazz-funk song, tipic of the mid of the 1980s. The current guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 was Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion...

. The vocals are composed by Mark King, on verses, and a duet with Mike Lindup falsetto

Falsetto

Falsetto is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave. It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous edges of the vocal folds, in whole or in part...

 on chours. The song is formed for the same structure of the song "Two Hearts Collide", released in 1988 in the album Staring at the Sun

Staring at the Sun (Level 42 album)

Staring at the Sun is the eighth studio album released by the British pop band Level 42, in 1988. Produced by Level 42, Wally Badarou and Julian Mendelsohn. Recorded at Miraval, France. Engineered and mixed by Julian Mendelsohn. Engineer's assistant - Jean Lamoot. Mastered at The Townhouse by Kevin...

. The guitar performance is peculiar, only arrangements.

Music video

This song have two different versions of music video, for the same director: "The Mill". All versions is composed only with the song performances in two different places. The first version in an extern place with mountains, and the second in a white room. The second version have some parts of the first. The two versions have the presence of Jakko Jakszyk

Jakko Jakszyk

Jakko M. Jakszyk is an English guitarist, singer-songwriter , multi-instrumentalist and producer...

 on guitars. The record guitarist, Alan Holdsworth get out of the group after the album record.

Reception

Is the song with the most commercial success of the album Guaranteed. Peak in the top 20, in the Britain charts. Is released in Latin countries, like Brazil

Brazil

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, and Argentina

Argentina

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, without success. The chart success happened only in Europe

Europe

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Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Belgian Single Charts	17
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	13
German Singles Chart	51
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	25
UK single charts	17