Falling by Blue Peter

Falling, the second full-length album from Toronto new wavers Blue Peter, arrived on Ready Records in 1983, hot on the heels of Up to You, the 1982 EP that had put them on the map. For the follow-up they brought in producer Steve Nye, and he steered them away from the guitars and toward a gleaming bank of keyboards, which is why the record drew comparisons to his work with Roxy Music and Japan.

Paul Humphrey, who had started the band with Chris Wardman in Markham, Ontario, back in 1978, sings it, and "Don't Walk Past" became the hit. Its video, directed by Rob Quartly, even got played on MTV in the States, though the band had no American distribution at all, and years later it landed at number 85 on MuchMusic's rundown of the top videos of the century.

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