“Secret Separation” by The Fixx

"Secret Separation" opened the account for the Fixx's fourth album, Walkabout, arriving on MCA in 1986 as its first single. Rupert Hine produced it, and the writing credit goes to the whole band, Cy Curnin, Jamie West-Oram, Rupert Greenall, Dan K. Brown and Adam Woods, with lyricist Jeannette-Thérèse Obstoj also credited and Dalbello adding backing vocals.

It's the Fixx in their slick, moody mode: chiming guitar, cool synth shading and a clipped, anxious vocal over a groove that never breaks a sweat. The video sets the band playing in a derelict building piled with junk while an actor watches them from a control panel, a neat bit of surveillance-age paranoia.

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