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That Was Then but This Is Now

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B-side
  
"Vertigo"

Format
  
7" 12"

Released
  
October 1983

Genre
  
Pop rock

Label
  
Mercury Neutron Phonogram Vertigo

Writer(s)
  
Martin Fry Mark White Stephen Singleton

"That Was Then but This Is Now" is a song by the English new wave band ABC. It was released in late 1983 as the lead single from their second studio album, Beauty Stab. It was the band's third entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 89.

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Music video

The music video shows them playing on a stage behind a huge Risk-style world map gameboard; scenes of the band playing, accompanied by various flags, are interspersed with scenes of a helicopter taking off and then exploding.

Track listing

  1. "That Was Then but This Is Now" – 3:33
  2. "Vertigo" – 1:53

References

That Was Then but This Is Now Wikipedia