“First one I’m going to fail! I’ve forgotten.” He thought we were experimental and ‘Enola Gay’ was cheesy pop.”ģ: Your song ‘If You Leave’ soundtracks the prom-scene of John Hughes’ Pretty in Pink. Our manager at the time – who only got the job because he owned the tape recorder we used onstage and worked for Vision Hire so had a van – threatened to resign if we released it. “Paul Humphreys wasn’t a fan of it but that was largely down to the fact that it was the first single we’d released that wasn’t written by both of us – it was just myself.
Apparently the song was divisive within the band…
