85K likes, 393 comments - retrogrooveradio on May 14, 2024: "When The Outfield’s debut Play Deep was first released in August 1985, its initial single “Say It Isn’t So,” despite being a catchy, upbeat song about dealing with romantic instability, failed to make much of a buzz. It was the follow-up single and ode to (potential) cheating, “Your Love,” that became the British band’s signature song. Fun fact: It was actually conjured in about 20 minutes one day when guitarist John Spinks, the band’s principal songwriter, was sitting down with frontman/bassist Tony Lewis. As mentioned, “Your Love” only took John Spinks about 20 minutes to write. “I was in John’s flat, and it was in the corridor and he had a tiny little cupboard where he had a Portastudio and an amplifier,” recalled Lewis to The Professor of Rock in 2020. “I sat on the amplifier, and he said, “Write this down—Josie’s on a vacation far away.’ I’ve still got the original lyric sheet. I’ve still got that paper with all the marks on it and all the words. And I sung it. … ‘You know what? That’s a good little pop song.’ We didn’t know that it was going to be as big as it is now, and it was written so quickly.” But the original direction of the song was shaped during the recording process. “We had a pre-production thing with producer Bill Wittman, and we recorded it as a demo as a pop song, and he made it a bit tougher,” Lewis further explained. “But it’s getting back to [when] we’d grown up in the ’60s. We were very influenced by The Who and their sonic attack. John loved The Cars as well.” As he was syncing his bass part with the drums, Lewis knew they had a hit on their hands. “Your Love” was a Top 10 in America and Top 20 in the Netherlands, although it was not nearly as big in their native England where it stalled at No. 83. Many years later, it had racked up 200,000 in sales there. The follow-up song “All the Love in the World” fared well, hitting No. 19 on the U.S. Hot 100, and it has accumulated 110 million YouTube views and 117 million Spotify streams.".