“Change Your Mind” by Sharpe and Numan

"Change Your Mind" paired Shakatak's Bill Sharpe with Gary Numan on a 1985 synth-pop single that went top 20 in Britain, peaking at 17, and later turned up on the duo's 1989 album Automatic. Sharpe wrote it with his Shakatak bandmate Roger Odell for Famous People, his first solo record, which he had started at Numan's own Rock City Studios while producing Shakatak there. Once it was settled that Sharpe shouldn't sing it himself, engineer Nick Smith, who was also working with Numan, suggested bringing him in.

Numan showed up looking the part: blue hair, white-powdered face, white suit and blue tie, a cross between his Berserker look and the one he was about to wear for The Fury. The record travelled, too, charting in Ireland, New Zealand and on the US dance chart, and it resurfaced in 2015 on the 30th-anniversary episode of EastEnders.

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