“Roll Over” by Thompson Twins

"Roll Over" is the Thompson Twins single that almost wasn't. Written by Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway and meant to be a 1985 single from Here's To Future Days, it was recalled and pulled from the shops on the very day it came out, with the leftover copies destroyed, though a few slipped onto the market first. Bailey, the band's singer, had just come through a bout of nervous exhaustion, read that as a bad omen and pulled the song. In the end it appeared only on North American versions of the album.

Bailey produced it with John Potoker co-producing and engineering, and Steve Stevens adds guitar. The single mixes differ from the album cut, which Nile Rodgers co-produced, and the B-side, "Fools In Paradise", a semi-instrumental take on "King For A Day", was found only here.

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