Interviews Introspective Nothing has been proved
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Neil We were approached by the film producer Steve Woolley, who told us he was making a film about the Profumo affair, Scandal, and asked whether we'd like to write a theme song for it. Many years beforehand I had written a song about the Profumo affair on the guitar having just read a book by Ludovic Kennedy about the case of Stephen Ward - a very sad story, because he ended up killing himself, and really he was a victim of the establishment. The words simply describe the true events. So we wrote new music for those words - the verse was written by Chris and the 'it may be false, it may be true' bit was written by me - and I made the line 'nothing has been proved' into the refrain.

Chris All the crashing drums were done on the Fairlight, and there's a really good orchestra sample all the way through it. It's a really atmospheric backing track

Neil Dusty was going to sing its o she came round to the rented flat I was living in by the Royal Albert Hall. I had a piano there and I played it to her, and she agreed to do it. I think she might have said, 'It's got a lot of words'. When I went out, one of the porters said, 'Excuse me, sir-would that have been Miss Dusty Springfield?' They were dead chuffed. Her version was released in 1989 and as we were going on tour then, we decided to perform it. Chris played the keyboards live.

Chris I can't believe I was able to remember the chords.

Neil This version is our demo version, which has never been released, though the lyric here is my final version, the one that Dusty recorded.
 
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