Why did you record the LP in France and how did you go about writing the songs for it?
Andrew: “Tax reasons primarily. We could have gone to Montserrat or Nassau, but it was hot down in France and we fancied a nice summer. Also it was only one and a half hours from London and George had to keep going back to do things for ‘Careless Whisper’.”
George: “I went over with five basic ideas and I though ‘oh, I’ll muddle my way through ‘cos I felt very good at the time. On the way to the airport in the taxi I got the chorus line for ‘Freedom’ and when I got there it kept going round in my head, so we worked on it and did ‘Freedom’ on the third day. I loved ‘Freedom’ so much I thought the ideas I’d had earlier on in the year just weren’t up to it. So we all just sat around the pool for five days and waited until I could think of the next thing, then we recorded everything as it came. With the rhythm section we’ve got now we record very quickly. We get the backing track done in about a day and I finish off the vocals at the end.”