Games People Play (The Alan Parsons Project song)

"Games People Play"
Single by The Alan Parsons Project
from the album The Turn of a Friendly Card
B-side	"The Ace of Swords"
Released	December 1980 March 1981
Format	7"
Recorded	late 1979 to mid-1980
Genre	Soft rock, progressive rock
Length	4:23 3:17 (7" edit)
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
Producer(s)	Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
The Alan Parsons Project singles chronology
"The Turn of a Friendly Card" (1980) "Games People Play" (1981) "Time" (1981)
The Turn of a Friendly Card track listing "May Be a Price to Pay" (1) "Games People Play" (2) "Time" (3)

"Games People Play" is a 1980 song by the Alan Parsons Project. It peaked at #16 in March 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well as #18 on the Cash Box.^[1][2] It appears on the album The Turn of a Friendly Card and was sung by Lenny Zakatek.

In popular culture

The song is featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories as part of its soundtrack in the fictional pop radio station, Flash FM.^[3]

References

1. "Music: Top 100 Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
2. "Cash Box 3/14/81". Retrieved 11 July 2016.
3. Games, By Rockstar (26 October 2006). "The Music of GTA: Vice City Stories". IGN. Retrieved 11 July 2016.