“Changeling” by Simple Minds

Simple Minds made "Changeling" the lone single from Real to Real Cacophony, their second album, issued by Zoom and Arista on 23 November 1979, and it was one of only four songs the Scottish band had ready when the sessions began at Rockfield Studios. By producer John Leckie's account, they wrote the rest right there in the studio.

That was the point. Unhappy with their debut, Life in a Day, they threw out the rulebook, worked on instinct and let the room shape the songs, recording and mixing inside five weeks with German Krautrock as their compass: the hypnotic, machine-steady motorik pulse of Neu!, Kraftwerk and La Düsseldorf. Leckie produced and mixed, sharing the arrangement credit with the band; Jim Kerr wrote the words and the music is credited to the group. Neither the single nor the album charted.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.