“Night You Murdered Love” by ABC

"The Night You Murdered Love" came out on Mercury in August 1987, ABC's second single from their fourth album, Alphabet City, and the follow-up to "When Smokey Sings". It's a big, dressed-up production strung on a Chic-style funk guitar with strings sweeping over the top, and Music Week duly hailed it as glamorous and dramatic. Smash Hits, less charmed, dismissed it as dreary and half-hearted, and British record buyers split the difference: it stalled at number 31 on the UK Singles Chart.

The video played the title's melodrama for camp, sending a homicidal fashion model armed with a slingshot and a skateboard after the band through the streets of Paris.

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