Having topped the charts around the world with Welcome to the Pleasuredome and its accompanying singles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood took off to Amsterdam to record the follow-up album, Liverpool.

In a 1986 interview, singer Holly Johnson was asked about the meaning of the song explaining, "Have you read the poem 'Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas?

In a contemporary review, Billboard praised the band's performance calling "the matured Frankie socks out weight art-rock best suited to AOR/ alternative radio.

"[3] Ro Newton of Smash Hits compared the single unfavorably with their previous releases as, "watered-down and without the guts.

A version of the song appeared as a B-side of "The Power of Love" reissue (FGTH 3), entitled the "original DJ mix".