Songfacts®:

• Palmer's fourth single, this has a mid-1960's sound to it. It kept Palmer's career momentum going, and gave him exposure on the fledgling MTV network, which was launched in 1981. He had a clever video prepared for the song that played well at the time. The clip was aired on MTV's first day of broadcasting. >>

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• The singer in this one is confused and confounded by the girl. All he can do is look for clues to help him out with the relationship.
• This song contains a rare xylophone solo. In the video, Palmer does a digitally enhanced dance on the instrument - something that would appear in similar form as part of the 1988 Tom Hanks movie Big.
• This was probably the only song in UK chart history to spend five consecutive weeks at #33 - it never rose any higher.
• Influenced by new wave and synthpop, the album was a success with European audiences, particularly with the younger listeners Palmer was trying to attract, but it didn't fare as well in the US. "The technology was so primitive that you spent most of the time behind the machines with a screwdriver," he told Q magazine in 1988. "But it did give you a simplicity of form. In America, that record was regarded as inaccessible and avant-garde when it came out."
• This was used in the 2007 movie Nancy Drew, starring Emma Roberts.
• The music video premiered on August 1, 1981, MTV's first day of broadcasting. It was #23 in the lineup, following Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight."