Neil We were approached by Central TV to be on a programme called Love Me Tender, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, and for some reason we agreed to do it. Rob Holden, who worked with Tom Watkins, got us a load of Elvis cassettes and the first track on the first one Chris picked up, Magic Moments With Elvis, was 'Always On My Mind'.

Chris I'm not a fan of Elvis Presley. The only songs I like are 'Suspicious Minds' and 'Always On My Mind'. I always like the Canadian Mounted backing vocals on Always On My Mind', but we don't put those in our version.

Neil Originally we were going to do a house version of a song called 'Baby Let's Play House', which was a really good idea, but there wasn't time or something. So we just started doing '~ways On My Mind' in the studio with David Jacob for two days. Chris came up with the brass riff, and I put a different chord in at the end of the chorus, a B flat, which made it more disco sounding. I changed the words slightly too and made it ungrammatical: 'maybe I didn't treat you quite as good as I should' instead of '...should have' because I wanted itto be more definite. And then we went up and filmed it for the programme, and everyone said it was fantastic. We dressed in leather, in clone outfits, and walked down a railway track. That demo version ~D2, track 9] was released on a seven-inch single with Japanese copies of Actually. We were going to release it as the b-side of 'Rent' but Jill Carrington said, 'no, it should be a single'. For the single version we just started up the demo and put tank noises on it. The demo fades out sooner. They were furious in America that it was a single because it wasn't on the album, and they had to repackage the album with a twelve-inch of 'Always On My Mind'.

I remember travelling around Scandinavia doing promotion and EMI were phoning up, trying to stop us releasing it. But we thought it stood a good chance of being Christmas number one, and it was. The twelve-inch [CD2, track 12] has Joss Ackland on it near the end, shouting 'Stop the car!', taken from our film, It couldn't happen here. 'Always On My Mind' wasn't in the film originally and then during the filming we decided to release it as a single and a whole new scene was written for the film so that it could be included. That's why the dialogue's so corny in that scene. Joss Ackland ends up quoting 'What have I done to deserve this?' It's hilarious. I think our film is arguably better than Spiceworid. We also mixed another, short version of 'Always On My Mind' [CD2, track 13] with Phil Harding, with no drums. I don't even remember doing it, to be honest.

Chris I like the way it ends.