Interviews Behaviour Where the streets have no name
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Neil We were releasing 'How can you expect to be taken seriously?' as the third single off Behaviour. However; we decided that wouldn't be a big hit, and we needed a hit, so we released a ragga-style remix of that with this as a double a-side. 'Being boring' hadn't been a big hit and we needed a big hit. It was absolutely shameless. Ages ago we'd had the idea of doing U2's 'Where The Streets Have No Name' as a medley with 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You', which we knew best as a high energy record by The Boys town Gang, because one day, when we were recording 'I'm not scared' with Patsy Kensit, Chris came in and said you could sing the one going into the other. And we also thought the guitar on U2's record sounded like a sequencer. Our original idea was to do this with Patsy Kensit - it was going to bethe follow-up to 'I'm not scared'.

Chris Then we had the idea of doing a whole EP ourselves of rock classics to a high energy disco beat. 'Stairway To Heaven'... 'She's climbing! She's climbing!...'

Neil  '...a stairway! To heaven!' And we were going to do 'Like A Rolling Stone'. Then we just decided to do 'Where The Streets...' The extended mix [CD2 track 7] really sounds like ZZ Top, I think. When I went to America to work for the American version of Smash Hits I heard ZZ Top for the first time, and there were two of their songs I particularly liked, 'Sharp Dressed Man' and 'Legs'. I loved the combination of electric guitars and drum machines. Billy Idol had it as well. And I think this sounds a little bit like that. We had J.J. Belle playing rock guitar when the single version came out, Bono said 'what have we done to deserve this?' And who can blame him?
 
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