| "We Don't Talk Anymore" | ||||
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| Single by Cliff Richard | ||||
| from the album Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile/ We Don't Talk Anymore (in U.S.) |
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| B-side | "Count Me Out" (Britten-Welch) | |||
| Released | August 1979 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 29 May 1979 RG Jones Recording Studios/Wimbledon and Roundhouse Studios | |||
| Genre | Pop, Pop rock | |||
| Length | 4:13 | |||
| Label | EMI (Rest Of World) EMI America (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Alan Tarney | |||
| Producer | Bruce Welch | |||
| Cliff Richard singles chronology | ||||
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"We Don't Talk Anymore" is a song recorded by Cliff Richard that reached number one in the UK singles chart in August 1979, remaining there for four weeks. Produced by The Shadows' rhythm guitarist, Bruce Welch, and written by Alan Tarney, it was Cliff Richard's tenth UK number one and his first since "Congratulations" in 1968.
Coming just before his 40th birthday, and just when it was announced that he was to receive the OBE for services to music, the record cemented his comeback, which continued well into the eighties and nineties. The single was his biggest worldwide seller: it was number one in Germany for five weeks (his only English-language German chart-topper, though he had two German-language number ones there in the 1960s), and reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States.
The single sold 5,000,000 copies worldwide, topping the charts in the UK, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta and Switzerland.
The song was the sixth video aired on MTV on its launch on 1 August 1981.
| Preceded by "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats |
UK number one single 25 August 1979 - 15 September 1979 |
Succeeded by "Cars" by Gary Numan |
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