Indeep – Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life

“Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life” – Single by Indeep from the album Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life!. Released in 1982.

“Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life” is a song written by Michael Cleveland. It features vocals from Réjane “Reggie” Magloire and Rose Marie Ramsey. The track appears as the third track of the namesake album released in 1983.

“Last Night A D.J. Saved My Life” is one of the first singles with a rap interlude, done by Indeep mastermind Michael Cleveland. He’s not a rapper, but you didn’t have to be in 1982. Cleveland just talks with a rap cadence to tell the DJ side of the story, letting the lady know she can always come to him when she’s feeling dispirited.

Rolling Stone magazine declared the song “one of the greatest songs ever written about being a girl, listening to the radio, or any combination of the two,” and, in 2005, editors of Blender magazine placed it at number 406 on its 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born list. The song also provided the inspiration of the title of the book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey (2000). In 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it number five in their list of 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time.