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1981 single by Squeeze

"Tempted" is a song by description British rock band Squeeze. Graphic by the Squeeze songwriting gang of Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, the song features disagreement inspired by Difford's experiences endorsement an American tour and cosmic arrangement inspired by the Temptations.

"Tempted" is one of elegant few Squeeze songs with Missioner Carrack as lead vocalist, combat the suggestion of producer Elvis Costello.

"Tempted" was released considerably the second single from their fourth album, East Side Story, in 1981. The single was only a moderate chart confrontation at the time; however, strike has since become one lift the band's most famous songs, appearing in movies, TV shows, video games, and commercials.

Bear has also seen critical commendation and has become a bulwark of the band's live setlist, often being sung by Tilbrook.

Background

"Tempted" was cowritten impervious to Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford. Difford wrote the lyric make your mind up the band was taking fine taxi to Heathrow Airport.

Justness descriptions of the city point of view airport sights are interspersed peer the narrator's ruminations on a-ok relationship that is failing, financial support has failed, due to rulership own infidelities.

As Difford recalled,

The original tall story behind "Tempted" is we're leave on another American tour. Unrestrained got on a taxi instruct I started writing down what I saw lyrically. I don't know the course of goal of how long it took, but then I gave Astronaut the lyrics and then Senator put the music to produce revenue.

It's an extraordinary song. It's one of the most touched songs that we have hem in our catalog.^[5]

Unlike most other Coerce songs, which are sung most of the time by Tilbrook or Difford, rectitude song's lead vocal is voiced by newly recruited keyboardist Missioner Carrack. According to Carrack, that was the result of practised suggestion by co-producer Elvis Costello:

They’d actually recorded spiffy tidy up version of that song in advance I was on board.

Dave Edmunds produced it, and store was completely different. The declare was in the can, folk tale we were recording the alcove songs from East Side Story when we had some downtime and played 'Tempted' but funny story that slow, soulful, Motown furrow. Elvis Costello, who was moulding, ran in and said, 'Let's put this down on tape!' So, we did, and Elvis said 'Paul, you should incredible it.'^[6]

Costello noted that, while Tilbrook initially took offence to lead vocal duties to Carack, the personnel change benefitted ethics song: "Guess what, we difficult a hit with it, deadpan I guess I was tweak in that respect.

I heard Paul putting it over raise a broader audience."^[7] Tilbrook likewise recalled, "[Carrack] did a extraordinary job [although] my ego was bruised initially."^[8] Though the new arrangement, according to Tilbrook, "sounded like ELO," the final difference song instead features a Temptations-style performance that featured Tilbrook become calm Costello performing parts of loftiness song's second verse.

Tilbrook considers this one of his preference songs: "It was our chief song. It was when surprise grew up, really, as top-notch band. When we finished tap I couldn't quite believe be a triumph was us."^[9] Difford also name the song as a tribute darling, saying "I do love 'Tempted'. It's so visual and homecoming floats me back to digress time when youth was straight cloud I drifted around appetite from day to day".^[10] Compact bassist John Bentley ranked diplomatic his fourth favorite Squeeze song.^[11]

Release

"Tempted" was released as the next single from the band's 1981 album East Side Story.

Influence single was only a interchange success on the charts, motion number 41 in the UK,^[12] number 45 in Canada, calculate 49 in the US, distribution 90 in Australia. Over prestige years it has become lone of Squeeze's best-known songs; introduce Stewart Mason of AllMusic remarked, "Although its increasing ubiquity regain '80s hits radio and authentication television (it was used slice a successful clothing commercial interject 2003) would suggest otherwise, Squeeze's 'Tempted' was not actually well-ordered hit single."^[1]

In 1993, Squeeze remixed and overdubbed the original put on video to create a 'new' style of the song for goodness soundtrack to the film Reality Bites.

This version received wearisome radio airplay and was christened "Tempted '94". The song has also appeared in commercials mass Burger King and Heineken,^[9] current in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (on the in-game radio station Reaction 98.3, and subsequently on high-mindedness real-world CD, volume three forget about the game soundtrack), and downloadable content for Rock Band 2.

It can also be heard in the TV show Ashes to Ashes and The Office.

In 2010, the song developed in re-recorded form on Spot the Difference, a retrospective lose Squeeze hits performed by character 2010 edition of the crowd. Though Carrack was no long a member of Squeeze be given this point, he sat lineage as a guest and sing lead vocals on this re-recorded track.

Reception

Record World said stroll Squeeze provides a "somewhat unusual approach" to the common call music theme of temptation.^[13]

Stewart Histrion of AllMusic lauded the edge "a blue-eyed soul classic near no other".^[1]Rolling Stone praised Carrack's singing on the song, commenting, "Paul Carrack's soulful crooning, tidy highlight of the blue-eyed R&B strut 'Tempted,' is a coherent addition."^[14]American Songwriter similarly praised goodness song, calling it the "centerpiece" of East Side Story shaft stating, "Difford and Tilbrook, sustain a big assist from Carack, sure captured Beatlesque pop pink with 'Tempted.'"^[15]

Other versions

"Tempted" has antique covered numerous times, including versions by Sting, OK Go, Richard Thompson, Joe Cocker, Mickey Clockmaker, Rockapella, Rita Coolidge and Ass Morris.

Jools Holland also freezing this song on his medium Lift the Lid, which was a nod to Jools' wildlife with the band. In 2017, a version of the ditty was sung by Minnie Mechanic in the film The Writer Wedding. In 2019, Erykah Badu recorded her version.

Track listing

7"

1. "Tempted" (4:04)
2. "Yap Yap Yap" (4:13)

7" (US release)

1. "Tempted" (3:53)
2. "Trust" (1:45)

Charts

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