“Running in the Family” by Level 42

"Running in the Family" gave its name to Level 42's seventh studio album, and Polydor sent it out as a single in February 1987. Mark King and Phil Gould wrote it with Wally Badarou, and Krys Mach sits in as a guest on saxophone, a little extra heat for the jazz-funk crew's sleek machinery.

It was one in a run of hits for the band, reaching number six in the UK, and it carried them into places that had barely noticed them before: the United States, Germany, Norway. The video is a neat piece of '80s pop art, with King, Mike Lindup, Boon Gould and Phil Gould on a multicolored platform that turns like a record on a turntable, each player freezing like a colored statue until it's time to play again. Stuart Orme directed it.

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