Interviews Behaviour Was it worth it?
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Neil This started off as a song I wrote on the piano, before we made Behaviour. For ages there wasn't a chorus, and then Chris wrote the chords to the chorus. Steve Anderson of Brothers Of Rhythm put down the piano part, which is pretty much like 'Ride On Time', on it. I said, 'Isn't that a bit too much like "Ride On Time"?' but then I realised that's what DJ culture is all about. It's just a rhythm part, anyway. I love the call-and-response in this song. It's real disco. It's a very gay song. Very gay positive. It's basically saying: if I had to do it all again, I wouldn't Change a single thing. It's about me starting a relationship. I couldn't think of the chorus words for ages and then I wrote them one night driving home in a taxi down North End Road in Fulham. I thought it would be atop five hit, but it was our first-and so far only - single not to reach the top twenty. I think we didn't spend enough time on the production. The seven-inch mix, which is on Discography, sounds a little bit cheesy now. This twelve-inch mix is great, though you can hear a very bad edit in it. In those days we still used to mix on half-inch tape and you can hear at 0.43 where the string run goes into the full mix.

Chris It sounds all right. You could even argue it was deliberate. 'How did we get that effect?' is what you could be saying. I didn't like this song for years, until I heard the demo of it that a fan sent in.

Neil When we were onstage in Spain in 2000 this Spanish boy gave us a version with a friend of his playing electric guitar and he sung it with a Spanish accent and it's so moving.

Chris He sung its o well - much better than Neil's ever sung it.

Neil So I started to do his version in concert. Actually, our new live version of it is a mixture of the original and his.

Chris We've now realised it works much better as guitar and vocals. We might redo all of our fast songs as ballads.


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