Labour of Love

The brothers wrote it; Greg dates it to about 1985, written at their publisher Warner Chappell's studios near Marble Arch. He told Songwriting Magazine it is built on a Roland CR78 drum machine preset he thinks is Latin Disco, with Yamaha DX7 piano arpeggios over an A-minor drone, and the brothers were fans of Latin jazz. Pat cites late-1960s and early-70s protest funk and soul such as the Temptations, and the lyric has a rap-like rhythm. The publisher found it too complicated and several producers failed with it; the New York producer Harvey Goldberg saw them play in Sheffield and encouraged the Latin influence. Pat said the verses address people who realize they voted against their own interests after being misled, and that it explores part of the British working class's relationship with Margaret Thatcher, given a love-song feel for radio play.

Goldberg and James Biondolillo produced; it was the second single from the album, with a video at Lawrence Hall in London. It reached 6 on June 13, 1987, and a 1993 Joey Negro remix reached 25 on March 13, 1993. They performed it on Top of the Pops only because Los Lobos could not appear. A US promo 12-inch (Virgin, 1988) has a remix at 5:34 and a dub at 3:49 with the B-side "Widescreen". Wikipedia says it appears in the Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City soundtrack, tagged as needing a citation. We could not get setlist counts.