“One of my favourite tracks on Quartet is Cut And it, then said, ‘no thanks’. Real Del Boy stuff! But on this Run, ‘cos it’s a bit rough,” says Billy Currie. “It was one, we had to do it all through samples. knocked together at the end of the writing sessions, “There’s lots of stuff I like on the album, though. when we were all going a little bit nuts. I’m very proud of my instrumental middle section on
“Serenade, with all that crazy classical stuff, is Mine For Life – and also When The Scream Subsides. where someone should have taken me to one side I remember recording that one with Geoff Emerick, and shot me,” he laughs. “I wanted Synclavier strings, and us both being really blown away by that glassy, which was the latest thing, but the Synclavier was metal, shiny sound I got on the PPG [synth]. about a hundred grand. By the time we came to the “I also really like when the slow bit comes in on next album [1984’s Lament], we’d worked out how to We Came To Dance. You can always rely on me to do it – we borrowed one to see if we wanted to buy ruin a potentially hit single!”