You can't understand how a team can win or lose, but it's just the vibe of it as Michael Caton would say.

It was released in Australia as the album's second single in May 1985 and quickly climbed the Kent Music Report chart to peak at No.

[citation needed] The single was later released in 1986 and 1987 in Europe after it was featured in the hit film Crocodile Dundee.

"Live It Up" is the band's most successful and most popular song, reaching the top 20 in various countries.

"[5] "Live It Up" has been placed in the collection of the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, with the song being described as "wistful and yet danceable".

[6] In 2020, the song became an unofficial anthem of Glasgow based football team Rangers FC to mock their city rivals Celtic FC and in December 2020 Rangers fans began a campaign to get the song to number one in the UK charts for Christmas.

Greedy Smith explained, "We mainly concentrate on the songs that people know off the radio: 'If You Leave Me', 'Too Many Times', 'Live It Up', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Rock and Roll Music'.