Fact #160390

Trevor Horn (record producer) : Dollar, in my head, were playing at the Vermillion Sands (a song by Horn's first band, The Buggles) Hotel and they had their technopop band. And if you listen to Give Me Back My Heart there’s this great bit where the band go “do do do deee!” and they play like a sort of TV band but it’s a technopop orchestra. And we used to talk about that, Bruce Woolley (co-writer of the song with Horn) and I, that it was all happening in Vermillion Sands in the hotel. So that’s the kind of stuff I was thinking about.

One of the first really interesting things we did that blew me away, was we sampled Thereza Bazar going 'aahhhh' and 'la! la!' And we used that on Give Me Back My Heart and it worked perfectly. What was clever about what we did, though, was that Thereza Bazar didn't just sing into the machine, we made up the samples. We 16-tracked her for every note. This was still in the days of analogue tape, and we bounced it down so we had a beautiful bed that was 16 tracks of her, across the range of an octave or whatever. And JJ disappeared into the back room and he spent weeks with her voice - fucking weeks! - and finally he wheeled it out and we played her onto the track. It was one of those fantastic evenings where I had to phone Thereza up and say 'Thereza, you won't believe it but we've put your backing vocals in from the Fairlight.' She didn't really know what we were doing, but when she heard it she loved it. How could you not love it? It was so good!
(Source : Interview by Ian Peel in Sound On Sound, March 2005)