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Although disco music had been declared " dead " in the US in a backlash in 1979, several songs which continued and advanced the exuberant surge of uptempo dance music managed to scale the US pop charts in the intervening years, notably Blondie's " Call Me " in 1980, Laura Branigan's " Gloria " in 1982, and Irene Cara's " Flashdance ( What A Feeling )" in 1983.

Unwilling to use the term " disco ", the phrase " high energy " had come into usage, probably begun in England in the early 1980s.

By 1984 Ian Levine had re-established himself as a producer and asked Evelyn Thomas to come to London to record a new track " High Energy ".

Just few weeks after it was released, it zoomed up the charts all over Europe-peaking at No. 1 in Germany and No. 5 in the UK, selling a total of 7, 000, 000 copies worldwide.

In the US it hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, selling 250, 000 copies.

The song was her only Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at # 85, although three additional songs hit the Billboard dance chart.

However, Thomas never got paid for the song, although Ian Levine did.