Tell Me

This is another pop gem from the Factory Records back catalogue, a 1984 single from Life. Andy Robinson was New Order’s guitar technician and would become their manager later on following the death of Rob Gretton. He put Life together with Graham Ellis and singer Rita Griffiths and put out four singles, two on Factory and two on Factory Benelux before calling it a day in 1986. Tell Me is bright and breezy synth-pop, fizzing with ideas, a minor gem in a back catalogue that is stuffed full of them, produced by Be Music. In this instance Be Music was Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert and it isn’t a million miles from the sound they would make as the Other Two.

Tell Me