Written by guitarist Pat Gribben, it reached number 20 in the UK Singles Chart, and became the most played song on BBC Radio 1 in 1988.
[1][2] The band were actively recording and touring from 1984 up until 1993, but despite being managed by the highly-influential Simon Fuller, The Adventures never achieved a significant commercial breakthrough.
[6] In 1982, Sharpe appeared in the Bananarama video for "Shy Boy"[7][8] and co-wrote several tracks on their debut album Deep Sea Skiving.
[10] They signed to Chrysalis Records[5] and were taken on by upcoming manager Simon Fuller, who saw them achieve much publicity and promotion in the music press, including an appearance on BBC's Crackerjack.
[1] Further singles were released, "Send My Heart", "Feel the Raindrops", and "Two Rivers", all of which were minor hits in the UK Chart, but no major breakthrough was achieved.
[1] A fourth album, Lions and Tigers and Bears, was released in 1993, produced by ex-Vibrators bassist Pat Collier at London's Greenhouse Recording Studios.
They regrouped again in 2009 to perform further small scale gigs in Belfast, as well as appearances at the Time To Be Proud and Féile an Phobail festivals during the summer.
[13] On 5 January 2019, The Adventures (featuring Sharpe along with Pat and Eileen Gribben) played a show at The Empire, Belfast,[7] with The Starjets[14] reforming later on in the year.