In 2009, Tim Rice wrote in "The Spectator" that the song was "a giant of its time and remains a standard today". In 2014, Ian Gittins described it in "The Guardian" as a "juggernaut power ballad". In 2015, Peter Larsen wrote for the "Orange County Register" that the band's formula of mining "a vein of soulfulness tinged with nostalgia and romance" had "reached perfection" on the track, describing it as "the one Spandau Ballet song everyone knows... It's truly a perfect song, as moving today as ever it was." It has been characterised as a "karaoke staple". In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's tenth-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.