Released July 1979 Genre Synthpop, pop rock | Format 7" single | |
B-side "Count Me Out" (Britten-Welch) Recorded 29 May 1979 RG Jones Recording Studios/Wimbledon and Roundhouse Studios Length 4:13
3:39 (US 7" version)
6:54 (European 12" Version) | ||
"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 39th 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 1980s and 1990s. 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 fact that its chart run extended beyond the end of 1979 meant Richard became the first act to reach the Hot 100's top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The single sold over 4 million copies worldwide, topping the charts in the UK, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Finland, West Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta, Norway and Switzerland. It was certified Gold in both the UK and West Germany.
The song was the sixth video aired on MTV on its launch on 1 August 1981.
An extended 12" version was released in Germany, France and Holland in 1979. This version runs to 6:54 and has so far never been released on CD.