“Sign of The Times” by Belle Stars

"Sign of the Times" was the Belle Stars' seventh single and the fourth pulled from The Belle Stars, their only studio album, and it was their one trip into the UK top ten: it hit 3 in February 1983 and finished as the 31st best-selling single of the year. It was also the first song of their own they'd put out as a single since "Another Latin Love Song" in 1981, with seven names on the writing credit: Stella Barker, Clare Hirst, Miranda Joyce, Jennie Matthias, Sarah-Jane Owen, Judy Parsons and Lesley Shone.

Peter Collins produced it for Stiff, with Matthias singing lead, Owen on guitar, Shone on bass, Parsons on drums and Joyce on alto sax. It even crept onto the Billboard Hot 100, reaching 75 that May, and the video put the band in tuxedos in a dark building strobed with blue light.

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