“Come Live with me” by Heaven 17

"Come Live with Me" was the fourth single Virgin lifted from The Luxury Gap, Heaven 17's second album, in 1983, and a brave pick after the hit "Temptation": moody, adult, in no hurry. Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware wrote it, and Marsh and Ware produced it as British Electric Foundation, with Greg Walsh. In Britain it climbed as high as number 5 and stayed inside the top 100 for eleven weeks, and Heaven 17 would not see the UK top ten again until Brothers in Rhythm remixed "Temptation" in 1992.

Reviewers split on it. Helen Fitzgerald in Melody Maker didn't think it topped "Temptation" but still called it sublime, a wistful farewell to lost youth; Max Bell in Number One heard an older man's begging letter to a younger girl, too reflective and wordy to connect.

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