This song was a big hit back in 1986. I remember the first time I heard this – my sister was taping this radio show of the best & biggest hits of 1986 on New Year’s eve, when we still lived back in Kuwait. As they played hit singles after hit singles, she would record each song so we could play them back at our leisure. One of the songs we had heard for the first time, but fell instantly in love with was Cutting Crew’s I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight. I never understood the meaning of the title – I remember thinking at age 10, how is he still singing this if he is supposed to have died? “) at the time and later thought that it meant ‘devastated’!
It was only years later that I came to know that it’s a song about sex and that title was inspired by the French phrase “la petite mort,” or “a little death,” being an obscure metaphor for orgasm.