A-Side: Do You Know
B-Side: Dance Master
Record label: I-Spy Records SEE 10
Producer: Martin Griffin & Secret Affair
Released: 25/09/81
Purchased: 07/11/81
It’s been a very Secret Affair lately, and this breaks Ian Page‘s long silence with a whimper rather than a bang. The chorus is catchy and clever and might just get onto the radio, but otherwise there’s very little to hold the attention.
And someone could do a lot worse than take a few elocution lessons – “I saw the tood-eye” and “why don’t we run-aweye” might sound amusing at first, but the effect begins to pall when virtually every line ends with the same murdered vowel sound. (Record Mirror, 03/10/81)
They’re back! I don’t know what Secret Affair look like these days – silver spacesuits perhaps, goatee beards, tropical fruits headgear? – but musically, it’s as if they’ve never been away. “Do You Know” is very Secret Affair. Unfortunately. (NME, 26/09/81)
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