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40 years since this masterpiece was released I remember it well the cover is very distinctive and listening to it on a cold December night wish it had done better but hey that's how it goes
Such a fantastic song. I recall Mike Read on Radio One being baffled when it was clear it had stiffed at 62. The sleeve was distinctively different (with the large Latin 1 followed by six cut out holes for the zeros in 1,000,000) but might have been a marketing error making the product hard to spot in the record shops.
Don't Talk To Me also great on the b side. You stitch me up and I'm tailor-made is a class line! Up there with Flirt with death but never kiss her, Justice isn't blind, it just looks the other way and Everybody tries, it's Dale Carnegie gone wild.
I must say that I thought at the time that this would definitely be a top 10 hit. Peaking at 62 was criminal and weird. Also forgot about DON'T TALK TO ME which was a fantastic song too. What a great double and yet never did anything. Very strange and a great shame.
I've only heard two live versions of this. London Hammersmith June 82, and another one , possibly Glastonbury 85. Both are more or less straight reproductions of the record, no bum notes or lazy shortcuts, which is pretty amazing. I must look up other renditions of one of my favourite Rats songs. Probably played it on V Deep tour.
I have a live version on cassette!!!!!! And I think on certain somewhere love this song my winter go to song on a cold novembernight
Where is your live version from Mike? I have London 82, and Sc_unthorpe Free Festival 85. Would be interested in obtaining any other versions, must check the bootlegs.
Got a free remastered version of the Tokyo 80 concert. Some guy has done up the sound.
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