1986 in British music cover of the disco song "Don't Leave Me This Way". The band included singer Jimmy Somerville who had previously enjoyed success with Bronski Beat, and later started a solo career. The Christmas number one single was something of a surprise, a re-issue of Jackie Wilson's 1957 single "Reet Petite". Wilson had died in 1984, but the song been re-issued after being used in a television advert for Levi's, with a new video made of a Claymation version of Wilson. Having first been released 29 years earlier, it broke the record for the longest time between a single being released and
Pull Up to the Bumper Music critic and writer Glenn O'Brien called "Pull Up to the Bumper" "Grace's first car radio hit". The original 1981 release peaked at number 53 on the UK Singles Chart. When it was re-released in 1985, then with the 1977 recording of "La Vie en rose" as the B-side, it reached number 12 on the UK pop chart in early 1986. The song then finally charted in Ireland and Germany, and became the singer's best-seller. The song was ranked at number 8 among the top 10 "Tracks of the Year" for 1981 by "NME". In 2011, "The Guardian"'s Richard Vine