“I See Red” by Split Enz

Tim Finn wrote "I See Red", words and music, and Split Enz, the New Zealand art rockers, fired it out on Mushroom in December 1978 as the first single from Frenzy: a jittery new wave jolt with its temper showing. The band were flat broke at the time, and the session was a one-off. A friendly engineer slipped them free hours at Startling Studios, Ringo Starr's place and once John Lennon's house, where he and Yoko had made Imagine, and somebody pointed them toward a young David Tickle, who co-produced with the band as something of an experiment. Finn said the location meant a great deal to them.

It became the band's second top-20 hit, reaching 15 in Australia, and the video opens with Finn furiously tearing at his hair before he rejoins the others for the rest of the song.

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