Everybody Have Fun Tonight

This song was conceived as a ballad by Wang Chung's Jack Hues and Nick Feldman, which is how it appears on the original demo. It was produced by Peter Wolf (not the lead singer of The J. Geils Band - this Peter Wolf is a composer from Vienna), who also got a writing credit on the song. On the Just My Show podcast with Eric Greenberg, Hues explained: "Most of the time we write separately, but 'Everybody Have Fun Tonight' is actually quite a collaborative song. When we came up with the original line, I then went away and wrote with a 'Hey Jude' style ballad around it, trying to be ironic. And then when we got in the studio with Peter Wolf, he was like, 'This is an amazing dance hit, you rock the tempo, you've got to really deliver what the title suggests.' The original demo we recorded in Nick's flat in London around Christmas time I think one Monday, because it had all these sort of like sleigh bells and stuff on it. And I just wanted it to have that kind of weird Disney-esque sort of atmosphere. But things obviously change as people hear the songs and see certain potentials in it. And after To Live and Die in LA we did have a choice facing us, which is, Okay you can do more movies, you can be sort of arty if you want, but you won't necessarily get support for that. Or you can go and have a hit record, which is what the label always wants from you. And we pretty consciously chose to have a proper hit record and sort of establish ourselves."

Bands have referred to themselves in their song lyrics before ("In A Big Country," "Bad Company), but this is the only hit song we know of where the band name was used as a verb. The line "Everybody Wang Chung tonight" perplexed listeners and created a memorable catch phrase that etched the song in history. This being the '80s, unusual lyrics combined with a catchy beat made for some of the biggest hits. As Holly Knight, who wrote "Obsession" and "Love Is A Battlefield" explained, "You come up with something that's very infectious and anthemic, and the key is to try and put something out of the box on top of that, throw a wrench."

In his appearance on Just My Show, Hues added: "Growing up at the end of the '60s and into the '70s, I was at that very impressionable age and thought that music could really change the world - it actually did really change the world at the end of the '60s. I probably had that as a subtext in everything I was writing. It may not be worthy of all of that early '60s and '70s stuff, the music I still love, but it was our little contribution."