Turn Back The Clock

Album: Turn Back The Clock (1987)
Charted: 12
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Songfacts®:

  • This was the third single from the LP with the same title. It was the band's third single to hit the UK charts but unlike their previous two releases, it failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100. It's about a man looking back on his life with gratitude and saying that if he could go back in time, he wouldn't change anything that had happened to him, even though there were bad times as well as good.
  • Kim Wilde did background vocals on this single. She was briefly engaged to Johnny Hates Jazz drummer Calvin Hayes and was hot at the time having topped the US charts in 1987 with her cover of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On." >>
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  • "Turn back the clock" is a phrase meaning to return to the past or to a previous way of doing things. Probably the best known song about wishing to go back in time to change something is R Kelly's single; "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time," in which the narrator regrets letting a girl slip away as he did her wrong. ("If I could turn, turn back the hands of time. Then my darlin' you'd still be mine.")

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