“All of My Heart” by ABC

"All of My Heart" came off The Lexicon of Love, ABC's 1982 debut, and went out as a single that August, following "The Look of Love". Trevor Horn produced and Gary Langan engineered, and the song is credited to Martin Fry, David Palmer, Stephen Singleton and Mark White, with Fry out front on lead vocals, lurching from tenderness to mistrust and from warmth to resentment, sometimes within a single phrase.

It's a lavish production: AllMusic's Mike DeGagne heard the lush instrumentation lending it a faintly classical flow, and the closing minutes swirl with film-score strings, plucked bass and tumbling piano. Pitchfork's Jess Harvell later named it his favorite UK single of the new pop era, calling it ABC at their slickest and most gorgeous, and perhaps their most bitter too. The B-side, "Overture", was an orchestral medley of the album's songs arranged by Anne Dudley.

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