- We Don't Talk Anymore
Infobox Single
Name = We Don't Talk Anymore
Artist =Cliff Richard
from Album =Rock n' Roll Juvenile
B-side = "Count Me Ou t" (Britten-Welch)
Released = September 1979
Format = 7" single,
Recorded = May 29, 1979 RG Jones Recording Studios/Wimbledon
Genre = pop,Pop rock
Length = 4:13
Label =EMI (Rest Of World)
EMI America (US)
Writer =Alan Tarney
Producer =Bruce Welch
Chart position =- #1 (UK)
- #7 (US)
Last single = "Green Light"
(1979)
This single = "We Don't Talk Anymore"
(1979)
Next single = "Hot Shot"
(1979)"We Don't Talk Anymore" was a UK number one single for four weeks in August 1979 forCliff Richard . Produced byThe Shadows ' rhythm guitaristBruce Welch and written by guitaristAlan Tarney it was Cliff Richard's tenth UK number one and his first since "Congratulations" in 1968.Coming just before his 40th birthday and just when it was announced that he was to receive the OBE for services to music it cemented his comeback which continued well into the eighties and nineties. The single was his biggest worldwide seller, reaching #1 in
Germany for five weeks (his only English-language German chart-topper, though he had two German-language number ones there in the 1960s) and reaching #7 on theBillboard Hot 100 singles chart in theUnited States .The song was the sixth video aired on MTV on its launch date,
August 1 ,1981 .
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