In 1982, after the commercial failure of their second studio album Set, the Thompson Twins collaborated with producer Alex Sadkin to record Quick Step & Side Kick.

Sadkin produced the album including "Love On Your Side".

It's about discovering that your girlfriend or boyfriend wants to experiment with a relationship in a much deeper or broader sense than you were prepared to do.

And so it drags you into this kind of helpless feeling of being lost, helplessly in love, but taking some kind of confidence from the fact that love will help you through those difficult situations.

It was also a top ten hit in New Zealand and Norway, a top twenty hit in Belgium and spent 14 weeks on the German singles chart.