This single was the biggest surprise for everyone. Darren had only just formed the band, I had heard them rehearsing in the cellar at the Bridge House and they sounded terrible. They played a lot of punky type tunes, thrashing their guitars, I thought, that's the last time I will let them rehearse with a p.a. system.
One day Darren comes to my office and says can you book us in a recording studio, I said no, you got to do it yourself. He said, will you pay for the session, it would be about £50. I said okay and they came back with the tape. It cost me £77 and it was amazing, Jealousy and Baby. They had used a small 8-track recording studio in plaistow called the Ram Studio. I took it to our publishers who were equally delighted. It should definetly have been a big hit, Noel Edmonds played every sunday morning for a month. It was on radio one's round table and good old John Peel played it a few times.
If a modern day artist were to record this song it would still be a hit today. One of the lines, 'if your not bleeding how do you know you've been cut. Your jealousy is killing me'. A great song.