Living on the Ceiling

Luscombe and Arthur wrote it and Mike Howlett produced. The Indian musicians Pandit Dinesh (tabla) and Deepak Khazanchi (sitar) play on it; per a 2011 Electricity Club interview the band first recorded it without them, and their manager, who had worked with Indian musicians, suggested adding them. Arthur has said he wrote the structure, Stephen made it better, and that they had a basic groove. We found no place where Arthur explains the lyric.

The single came out on October 15, 1982 and reached 7 in the UK on the chart dated October 30, staying 14 weeks and earning a BPI silver. It was 5 in Australia, 8 in Ireland and 3 in South Africa, and 52 on the US dance club chart. The video, directed by Clive Richardson, is set in Cairo and reached MTV in early 1983.