Interviews Actually One More Chance
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Chris This was originally recorded with Bobby '0'. He had this old Divine backing track and suggested we write something over it. We were very excited, getting an old Divine backing track.
Neil There was a vocal on the tape - it was called 'Rock Me'. I don't know why it wasn't released Because it sounded quite good, but I think Divine hadn't thought of any other words for it apart from 'Rock me'. But it was a totally finished track and I just wrote a song over the top of it in New York, sitting in a Flat of a friend of Bobby 'O"s on Broadway, with a completely different melody. Bobby '0' absolutely loved it. It's about being in New York at night. The idea of being chased by someone - the mafia is after you, like you're the patsy or something -and at the same time you're looking for your love.

There's desperation. It's really Eighties paranoia-there was a lot of paranoia in Eighties pop lyncs and this is a very good example. It's just romantic paranoia. The Bobby '0' version was our second single, in 1984, though it was only released in America and Belgium. We only put in the middle section bit when we re-recorded it for Actually.
Chris wrote the chords. May Richards said he thought it needed a middle bit, and it was like Chris and I showing oft really-we wrote it in about two minutes.

I'd already had the words- it was originally 'you're so extreme/your silk-screened life shot through with bullets' but then I thought that was too over the top; and I like 'I want to take you home with me' which is what it became. The song is sort of masochistic -you're pleading, but maybe you quite like being chased because, after all, it's exciting. Chris used to have these dreams of being chased and he told me he was scared but he liked it - I think that may have been one of the things that inspired the song originally. We did a normal seven-inch version with Julian Mendelsohn for the album, and we also thought it would be a single. Then we weren't quite happy with the mix so we got Julian to do a twelve-inch mix and we liked that so much we put that on the album instead. The seven-inch [CD2, track 4] was never released.

Chris We were brave, weren't we, starting the album with a twelve-inch remix?

Neil This was the early days of house music. We thought it had a lot of attitude and sounded really house. This is just when 'Love Can't Turn Around' had been a hit.

Chris There's another one of our car crashes in it.
Neil Driving through the night was still exciting.


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