Each Time You Break My Heart

In this synth-pop ballad, Nick Kamen struggles to hang onto his relationship with a girl who keeps breaking his heart. The first single from his debut album, it was originally intended for Madonna's True Blue album but didn't make the cut. At the time, Kamen was a hot commodity after appearing in a steamy Levi's ad where he stripped down to his boxers in a British Laundromat to the tune of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Madonna, Kamen's label-mate at Sire Records, wanted to work with the British model-turned-singer but couldn't find the time. She was busy shooting her movie Who's That Girl, so she gave him this song, which she wrote with her frequent collaborator Stephen Bray. She also provided backing vocals on the track.

Peaking at #5, this was Kamen's biggest hit in his native UK. In the US, a dance version by remix master Shep Pettibone peaked at #5 on the US Dance Club Songs chart.

Although the Levi's commercial made him an overnight sensation, Kamen said his modeling success made it difficult to transition into a music career because people only wanted to see him as the Levi's guy. Kamen only had a few more minor hits following "Each Time You Break My Heart" before falling off the charts completely in the late '80s. "It's still difficult for people to fully accept me as a singer," he explained in a 1989 interview.