“Watching” by Thompson Twins

"Watching" was the last of four singles the Thompson Twins took from Quick Step & Side Kick, their third album, from 1983, a slice of synth-pop with the writing split between Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway. Alex Sadkin produced, Phil Thornalley engineered, and Monte Brown sits in on guitar.

The album version hides a guest on backing vocals: Grace Jones, who had worked a great deal with Sadkin and was at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, in the Bahamas, finishing her own sixth album, Living My Life, while the band was there making theirs. Her voice didn't survive the remix for the single, which reached number 33 in the UK in July 1983. Arista pressed it as a picture disc cut into the shape of the band's three-heads logo, and the B-side, "Dancersaurus", is "Watching" remixed as an instrumental.

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