ABC – The Look of Love (1982)

ABC are an English pop band formed in Sheffield in 1980. Their classic line-up consisted of lead vocalist Martin Fry, guitarist and keyboardist Mark White, saxophonist Stephen Singleton, and drummer David Palmer.

Developed from an earlier band, Vice Versa, ABC achieved ten UK and five US top 40 hit singles between 1981 and 1990, and their 1982 debut studio album, The Lexicon of Love, was a UK number one. Their early-1980s success in the US saw them associated with the Second British Invasion. Now essentially a solo project for Fry, ABC continue to tour and released a ninth studio album, The Lexicon of Love II, in 2016.

Ah, mm Whoa, whoa, whoa When your world is full of strange arrangements And gravity won’t pull you through You know you’re missing out on something Well that something depends on you

All I’m saying It takes a lot to love you All I’m doing You know it’s true All I mean now There’s one thing yes one thing That turns this gray sky to blue

The look of love (That’s the look, that’s the look) The look of love (That’s the look, that’s the look) The look of love

When your girl has left you out on the pavement (goodbye) Then your dreams fall apart at the seams Your reason for living’s, your reason for leaving Don’t ask me what it means

I don’t know the answer to that question (Where’s the look) If I knew I would tell you What’s the look Look for your information Yes there’s one thing, the one thing That still holds true (What’s that)

The look of love (That’s the look, that’s the look) The look of love (That’s the look, that’s the look) The look of love

The look of love (That’s the look, that’s the look) The look of love (That’s the look, that’s the look) The look of love

If you judge a book by the cover Then you judge the look by the lover I hope you’ll soon recover Me I go from one extreme to another

And all my friends just might ask me They say, “Martin, maybe one day you’ll find true love” And I say, maybe there must be a solution to The one thing, the one thing we can’t find

Sisters and brothers (That’s the look, that’s the look) Should help each other (That’s the look, that’s the look) Heavens above (That’s the look, that’s the look) Hip hip hooray aye (That’s the look, that’s the look) Yippie aiy yippee yaye (That’s the look, that’s the look) Be lucky in love Look of love