Imagination were quite a big deal back in ’82, I don’t think people realise how popular you were…
It’s funny, because we’ve had so many cover versions of our tracks. This is the interesting story in the UK, they kind of compress you. Especially when you’re a black British artist. But elsewhere it was the opposite. In actual fact, every track was a single near enough except for Don’t Look Back. Burnin’ Up was in the R&B chart Top 10 in America, and at that time, that’s when it really counted. So that first album [1981’s Body Talk], I think, was a hit everywhere. I didn’t think that we’d do anything after that. I thought because I knew the way things were for marketing new black artists, especially at that time, you’d have a moment. Even when we got into the Top 40, I thought: ‘Okay, that’s it, and I’ve written a classic song here’. And then it went on and I thought: ‘We got to really capitalise on this thing’. By the In The Heat of The Night album, it was like second album syndrome, but I remember people telling me that it was their album, they’d be playing it all night – Changes and Music And Lights were bigger than Just An Illusion in some places.