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Neil
We wrote this at Ray Roberts studio one night in 1983. Ray Roberts had
a bass guitar, which I played. This is us doing gay disco -the words are
completely about going to a club and picking up someone. When we first
started writing together Chris
was very keen that we should write sleazy songs - it had never occurred
to me before. It's about standing at a corner of a nightclub and everyone's
leaving and you've seen someone you fancy, and who's going to make the
first approach? It Emphasises the transitory nature of it - it was totally
a pre-Aids song. It's recorded with Blue Weaver who we'd met when we did
the first single version of 'Opportunities'. He played on all the Bee
Gees records and he was in Amen Corner. He's a great keyboard player and
programmer.
Chris
Blue Weaver always understood disco.
Neil
He lived in Miami. He played at the White House with the Bee Gees for
President Carter- how much more disco than that can you get? There's real
guitar on it, played by a friend of Blue Weaver's. There was more guitar
originally- it sounded like 'Fame' in the middle- but we edited it out.
There's another car crash on this - a different car crash - and there
is a sample of Chris playing the trombone. Chris brought his trombone
into the studio. He wasn't very keen on doing it.
Chris
Blue Weaver insisted. I learned the trombone when I was about ten. My
grandfather played the trombone.
Neil
It's got my favourite line: 'driving through the night, it's so exciting',
followed by a car crash.
Chris
Was that the first song with a bass dam on the fours?
Neil
Yes, it probably was, and that's now what you'd think of as really Pet
Shop Boys.
Chris
It's all about turning off the lights and it all getting a bit steamy.
Our records aren't sexy enough now. It's all bloody politics and the intensifies
of Russian history. No one wants to hear about that, do they?
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