"It's My Life" is a song by the English new wave band Talk Talk. Written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, it was the title track on the band's second album, It's My Life (1984), and released as its first single in January 1984. It reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart, but did better in several other countries, reaching number 33 in Germany, number 32 in New Zealand, number 25 in France and number 9 in Italy. In North America, it entered the Top 40 in both the United States (at number 31) and Canada (at number 30). It peaked at number 1 on the US Dance Club Songs chart.
The single was re-released in the UK in 1985, but only peaked at 93. In 1990, however, "It's My Life" was reissued again to promote the compilation album Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk. This time, the song was a hit in the UK, reaching number 13, the band's highest chart-placing single in its native country.
^"New Singles". Music Week. 7 January 1984. p. 10.
^Jonathan Barnes (18 October 2010). "When the man from Talk Talk fell silent". EADT 24. Eadt.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2013. The EMI-signed group achieved reasonable commercial success; even a couple of top 20 singles in the synth-pop classic It's My Life