Hands Off...She's Mine

"Hands Off...She's Mine" is the second single by British ska/new wave band the Beat, released on 14 February 1980[1] as the first single from their debut album I Just Can't Stop It.

[2] The single was the first release on the band's newly created record label Go-Feet and was released as a double A-sided single with "Twist and Crawl" in the UK as there were opposing thoughts in the band as to which song should be the A-side.

[4] In his review of the song in Record Mirror, journalist John Shearlaw wrote "Why then is this turgid, beatless, tuneless, production-less mere germ of an idea (that could turn into a song if they sat down and worked on it for about a year) allowed to be released to pervert the minds of the nation's youth?".

[1] Reviewing the song retrospectively for AllMusic, Jo-Ann Greene said that the "rich and fulsome arrangement blends a driving spot-on rhythm, tuneful riffing that dances merrily around the melody, fabulous sax solos, and sweetened by a xylophone-esque line that gives the piece a further Caribbean flair".

""[6] In an interview with Songfacts, Wakeling said "it was actually a friend of David Steele's, the bass player, Peter Greenall, wrote the lyrics", and Wakeling "filled out the lyrics" and "made it scan a bit more".