Neil This is inspired by Phyllis Nelson's 'I Like You', which Shep Pettibone produced, and is why we worked with Shep in the first place. We decided to record 'Heart' for Actually with Shep. Before that, we'd sent Narada Michael Walden a tape of this and 'What have I done to deserve this?' and he said he was interested in working with us but he couldn't hear the song. With Shep we just remade our demo - at the time, as well as for the album we were doing it for a movie Steven Spielberg was producing called Inner Space - but we didn't think that version [CD2, track 2] was glossy enough, so it was never used. We then asked Andy Richards, who worked with Julian Mendelsohn, if he wanted to do a song with us. I only wrote the third verse when we did it with him and I think I changed the lyrics a bit as well. The first version we did with him, with the sync drum on it, ended up being the seven-inch single the following year, in 1988, and has J.J.

Belle playing guitar on it, but for some reason we went off that and so then we asked Julian Mendelsohn to mix the song for the album. He took out the guitar because he said it was too complicated, and he actually accidentally wiped a bit off the track-that's why it comes in going 'beat.. Beat.. Heartbeat’. He was slightly embarrassed about it. This was the song we wanted to give to Madonna, but we never even tried. and at one stage we were going to give it to Hazel Dean. B then we decided we liked it too much and that we'd keep it for ourselves. I think it's got one of the best middle bits we've ever written. Of course, the words are just ordinary. I thought of the verse on a bus going up the King's Road - I was going to Advising when v' were recording Please. I was passing Peter Jones and I started singing, 'every time I see your something happens to me like a strange reaction/between yogi and me/my heart starts missing a beat...' We start writing it in Advision - Chris was just vamping at the piano one day for hours and it sounded really brilliant Chris forgot it but I remembered it.

Chris I'm classic at forgetting things.

Neil  The song was originally going to be called 'Heartbeat' but just before the album came out Jon Moss from Culture Club had started a group called Heartbeat UK and they had posters all over London, so we decided to change the title. We were very surprised when the single version got to number one By this time Bros were around, and at Massive Management, Tom Watkins' company, they were saying they thought this would get to number 15. But it went to number one and stayed there for three weeks. I think the reason it was so successful was because it was a completely straightforward love song with a wacky video. We did a twelve-inch of the single version [CD2, track 7], which includes the seven-inch within it. At the time it was rather daring having sync drums.