Synopsis

Fun Boy Three perform their darker, more restrained take on "Our Lips Are Sealed" before a lively club audience. The visual emphasis is on the trio's detached stage presence, with Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding delivering the song in a setting that feels both informal and slightly mysterious. Rather than copying the sunny, carefree tone of The Go-Go's original video, the presentation matches the band's cooler new wave style and the song's theme of refusing to respond to gossip and outside pressure.

Factoids & Trivia

• Released in 1983, Fun Boy Three's version was the second recording of the song. Terry Hall co-wrote it with Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go's, whose version had already become a hit in 1981.

• The single reached No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the band's final UK hit before Fun Boy Three split later in 1983.

• The performance footage was presented as being largely live. A contemporary report described the video as a kind of mystery story, with the band themselves apparently unsure how the finished narrative would come together.

• The production reportedly involved an attempt to use a Terry Hall lookalike. Hall had spotted the man at an HMV store, but the proposed double was unavailable when filming took place.

• Fun Boy Three's arrangement is notably more subdued and ominous than The Go-Go's bright power-pop recording. The video follows that change in mood by focusing on the band's reserved delivery rather than a carefree storyline.

• The song appeared on *Waiting*, the second and final Fun Boy Three studio album. David Byrne of Talking Heads produced the album.