Don’t You Want Me

Oakey considered the track “weak,” disliked its softer “poppy” mix, buried it as the last track on side two, and rowed with producer Martin Rushent over it. Virgin insisted on releasing it — and to the band’s amazement, especially Oakey’s, it shot to #1. No lyrics reproduced.

Oakey recruited backing vocalists Joanne Catherall (17) and Susan Ann Sulley (18) after seeing them dancing at Sheffield’s Crazy Daisy club — neither had professional experience; he wanted an image, not musicians. The lyric, inspired by a teen-magazine photo-story, was restructured into a two-sided dialogue after he watched “A Star Is Born.”