“About the Weather” by Magazine

"About the Weather" was the one and only single lifted from Magic, Murder and the Weather, the fourth Magazine album, which Virgin released in June 1981. It carries the album's new division of labour: keyboardist Dave Formula wrote the music, and Howard Devoto, as on every Magazine record, supplied the words.

The album was cut at Trident Studios in London early that year, with John Brand recording and engineering and nobody credited as producer; Martin Hannett, who had produced The Correct Use of Soap, took the mixing credit, working with the band at Strawberry Studios in Stockport. Guitarist John McGeoch had already left for Siouxsie and the Banshees, and this turned out to be Magazine's farewell until they re-formed in 2009: a band bowing out on Formula's keyboards and Devoto's arch, anxious poise.

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