Joe, who is originally from Coventry and now lives in Oakley, Bedfordshire, says in 1985 he was writing with his “very good friend” David, whom he had met at school. <\/p>\n
He said: “I didn’t realise immediately what a great song it was. <\/p>\n
“I was riding home and all I could think going through my head was the chorus and that is really good. <\/p>\n
“I rode back and knocked on his window and sang it through the letterbox, we then knew it was a great song so we said we’ve got to keep working on it.”<\/p>\n
The song’s introduction was written by David, as well as the lyrics. <\/p>\n
“I said we need a ‘la la part’ that people can sing along with, the example I gave was The Passenger, by Iggy Pop.<\/p>\n
“With lightening speed he did it, and we went ‘yeah’,” he added. <\/p>\n
What followed was a few sleepless nights with friends who helped the pair produced a four-track demo. <\/p>\n
Joe was a carpenter at the time and was working on Dave Stewart’s, the other Eurythmics band member, narrow boat. <\/p>\n
“Unbeknown to me, my work colleague gave Dave Stewart the demo which included No More I Love You’s.<\/p>\n
“He said [Stewart] came running up to them and said it was ‘great’ and signed us to his publishing company.<\/p>\n
“We released the song as The Lover Speaks and it ricocheted off the outer edge of the charts and into oblivion,” Joe says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe, who is originally from Coventry and now lives in Oakley, Bedfordshire, says in 1985 he was writing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-148906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}