Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
About this episode
In this episode, Tom Bailey discusses the creation of the Thompson Twins' hit song 'Hold Me Now'.
Thompson Twins originally formed in 1977 in Sheffield, in the UK. “Hold Me Now,” their iconic hit, came out as a single in November 1983, and eventually on their 1984 album, Into the Gap . That album went to number 1 in the UK and went platinum in the US. The song spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. So for this episode, I talked to the founding member of Thompson Twins, Tom Bailey, and he told me how he and his bandmates, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway, made “Hold Me Now.” For more info, visit songexploder.net/thompson-twins.
People in this episode
Host: Hrishikesh Hirway
Guest: Tom Bailey
Topics covered
- music history
- songwriting
- 1980s music
- Thompson Twins
- Hold Me Now
- album production
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Thompson Twins
Books & works: Into the Gap
Places: Sheffield
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