Someone Somewhere in Summertime

All four of the main members are credited, with Mel Gaynor on drums and Peter Walsh producing; the single, on Virgin with "King Is White and in the Crowd" on the B-side, runs 4:35, and the single cover is titled with parentheses. It reached 36 in the UK (five weeks), 19 in Ireland and 51 in Australia, and no video was made as the band were preparing for a UK tour. We found no recording date beyond the album sessions and no artist statement on its subject; Treble calls it an atmospheric, gauzy lead-off, and Post-Punk Monk hears a warm, romantic yearning showing a shift toward human relationships. Rolling Stone in 2003 called it among the album's strongest and most tuneful tracks, and Q in 2005 said it opens the album grandly.

David Guetta sampled it on "The World Is Mine". Bono chose it as a castaway record on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, broadcast on June 26, 2022. Setlist.fm counts 1,436 plays, first on July 14, 1982 at Tiffany's in Glasgow, busiest in 1984 with 97, and it was song seven of the main set at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on May 22, 2025. We do not know whether our upload is the studio, live or remastered version.