“Down To Earth” by Curiosity Killed the Cat

"Down to Earth" was the second single from Keep Your Distance, the debut album by English band Curiosity Killed the Cat, and it only reached the shops in November 1986 because the band stood their ground. "Misfit" had gone nowhere four months earlier, and Mercury, wanting another single but convinced this one would be buried in the Christmas crush, meant to hold it until the holidays were over. The band insisted on going early, and the gamble paid off slowly: the song inched up the UK chart until it sat at number 3 for three weeks in February 1987, their biggest hit.

Stewart Levine produced this polished slice of sophisti-pop, and the writing credit is split five ways between Toby Andersen, Julian Godfrey Brookhouse, Michael Drummond, Nicholas Bernard Thorp and Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.