"Echo Beach" was the band's only significant international hit, although they had other popular singles in Canada.

One such time was an evening spent at Sunnyside Beach on the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto in summer.

'Echo Beach' was a reference made to a faded time and place gone in the lyrics of the song "Hiroshima Mon Amour" by the band Ultravox.

The UK version of the single shows the north-western end of the Fleet Lagoon and the bar of Chesil Beach, the location of Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset.

"[7] Mark Gane explained, "We wanted to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the song, by not trying to replicate the version that we originally recorded, but as musicians who've experienced three decades of living.