2000Released
3:20

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about Who Can It Be Now?. By Songfacts®.

This was the first single Men at Work released, and it became a huge hit. The group started as an acoustic duo with singer Colin Hay and guitarist Ron Strykert. After a few years playing pubs in Australia, they were discovered by an American who worked for CBS records and signed them.

In our interview with Colin Hay, who wrote this song, he explained: "I was up in the bush in Southern New South Wales with my girlfriend, just sitting outside at night. We had this little tree hut in the middle of the bush. It was a great place to kill the time, mess around with ideas. It was just an idea that popped out, it took about half and hour to write that song. I was living in St. Kilda in Melbourne, which is a great part of Melbourne. At that particular time it was a very interesting area, it was frequented by everybody from the high Jewish population, punks, drug movers, all kinds of different people. It was about six or seven hours drive away, sitting in the middle of the bush in New South Wales and that song just popped out. My girlfriend at the time said, 'that will be your first hit, that song,' and she was right."

The Business As Usual album was #1 in the US for 15 weeks, a record at the time for longest stay at #1 for a debut album.

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Who Can It Be Now?.
EKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
129BPM

Album

The album Who Can It Be Now? is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Who Can It Be Now?.
Columbia
(P) 1981, 1982, 1984, 2000 Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) PTY. Ltd.

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