Chris Only in that it's Latin. I love this song.

Neil We wanted to write something Latino because we used go to America and hear this entire Latin hip hop records and like them. We worked on it some more in a Los Angeles demo studio. We'd just been on holiday to Antigua, then flown to America to do some promotion, and booked this studio in Los Angeles. This guy had a really neat demo studio, and, being imperial, we used to drive over every morning in a stretch limousine. We were working on this song, and we needed a chorus, and Chris went 'well, you could just go like that...'

Chris Put in another obvious chord change.

Neil.. . And I immediately sang 'all day, all day...' When we had been in Antigua, playing dominoes, our friend Pete would do a dance when he won and Chris said to him, 'stop doing your domino dance', and I wrote in my notebook: 'watch them all fall down, domino dancing'. I was thinking of the domino theory:

Push one and they all go down. They used to talk about the domino effect, that if Vietnam went communist, all of South-East Asia would go. In the song the idea is that someone is so attractive that everyone fancies them, and how difficult it is to go

out with someone who's fantastically attractive because you feel jealous. The people falling down are the people she dances with; she's totally bowling people over. It's a bit like a Cole Porter lyric with all these hot ideas-the thunder crashing, the storm breaking in your heart, the hot climate, the love being hot-all put together. At the end of the song the singer has decided it's not working - he's going to tell her to stop messing around or he'll leave.

Chris We were really pleased with the demo version [CD 2, track 3] we did in Los Angeles.

Neil  Even though there were no vocals in the verses of the demo, because I hadn't finished all the lyrics at that point.

Chris We liked all these great Latin hip hop records made by this bloke in Miami, Lewis Martinee.

Neil He was having all these hits with Expose. We were so excited by 'Domino dancing' that we flew immediately to Miami and made the record with him. We stayed in the Hilton on South Beach, which smelled of hamburgers. There was this van there on the beach - Latin American Party - and as soon as we saw that, we thought that would be the cover of the record. Pete took a Polaroid, and that's the photo we used on the sleeve. All the musicians on it are Cuban. There are tons of people playing on it. This trumpet player came in who couldn't really speak English and he played loads of notes for the solo, and so I said, 'can't he play the tune, and then halfway through play loads of notes?' and he did that, and it was great. And he came up to me afterwards and hugged me. I hate it when the solo has none of the tune in; it's the jazz version of a remix not having any of the song in. We made the seven-inch version, and then Lewis Martinee expanded it to the twelve-inch version on the album. Towards the end there are lots of edits, all done by hand. You could see all the white sticky tape going past. When Lewis Martinee finished the mix we suggested to him that he did a mix without the drums [CD2, track 4] and that was done in half an hour. I've always liked that mix.

Chris It brings out more of the beauty.

Neil 'Domino dancing' was the first new single released from Introspective, and we were very disappointed when it only reached number seven in the British charts. I remember driving back from my house in Rye and listening on the radio when it entered the charts at number nine and I thought, 'That's that, then - it's all over'. I knew then that our imperial phase of number one hits was over.

Chris I was in Liverpool, I think. I remember stopping the carton listen to the chart. The English don't generally like Latin-tinged music, anyway. When you look back, the chart positions are irrelevant. I love this track, so I couldn't care less.