The song was released in 1982 and was mainly in the United States a huge hit as the song flopped in her native England.
Above all, they had then luck. They were at the right time at the right place
1982 was the television channel MTV only 1 year and there was very little videos that were playable. The quality of the videos was then, of course, atrocious.
And since A Flock of Seagulls a low budget had 540 pounds video that shows them in a room with mirrors. Therein also a few female journeymen. The band plays and it looks like when the women would be aliens and harry and kidnap. The video is now wonderfully cheesy (as the Americans would say)
But then you have hit the nerve of time. The song reached the top 10 of the US charts and was one of the most successful of the year 30.
If you would now ask 100 Americans who were young in 1982, then 70 percent of these people know the song.
What I also very well find that the sound quality is so good, is probably Remastered Version
for I have also bought 2 years ago times a Best of where the song was on it. And the quality was poor. And one more thing, I like the short version, where it actually comes to no end, but the singer sings it further but then ends. This is the radio version.
The other versions are unnecessarily long with a stupid intro