Bonus extended honourable mention in an occasional series of reviews of my favourite 80s 12" records.
Chart Number
00
Track Length – 09:23
Released on London Records
Format – 12″
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Another perfect storm of a tune, that at the time just hit me square.
Emerging UK Pop Rock band, cover a classic song from the pen of Pete Shelley, originally written as a gay love torch song, but transformed here into a danceable piece of solid pop, touched off with another great example of remixing genius by the hands of Arthur Baker.
Produced originally as a song for the (forgettable) 1980s film Something Wild (anybody?) it led to a renaissance of the band’s fortunes, and was the first of 3x Top 10 hits for the group.
