“Breakfast in Bed” by UB40 with Chrissie Hynde and Chrissy Hynde

"Breakfast in Bed" teamed UB40 with the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde again in 1988, a second duet after their "I Got You Babe" three years earlier, and it's a lazy, loved-up reggae groove from the band's self-titled eighth album. The song itself is a soul number by the Muscle Shoals writers Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts, first cut by Dusty Springfield on Dusty in Memphis, but UB40 came to it through Lorna Bennett's reggae version.

The band produced and mixed it with John Shaw, and Hynde's voice drapes over their easy lope like a borrowed sweater. It reached number six in Britain, went top ten across Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand, and climbed to number four on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.