It was written by Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway, and prominently features a keyboard solo.

[1] In 1983, after the commercial success of their third album Quick Step & Side Kick, the Thompson Twins collaborated again with producer Alex Sadkin to record Into the Gap at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas.

The song also peaked at #18 on the US Dance chart in the same year, and the Top 20 in Canada, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

As the song continues, Bailey, Currie and Leeway join the characters to act out the lyrics around blocks emitting smoke.

The scene continues to shift between the singer, the band playing, the actors and the ice skaters moving and turning.

The video fades out in the same sequence it began, changing from the characters to the blocks against the sky, and then to the distant moon and shifting clouds.