The single nevertheless entered the chart at No. 29, climbing into No. 26 a week later, due largely to an astonishingly homoerotic video, screened on ITV’s Chart Show, featuring Nicky and Richey naked but for tiny leather thongs (‘It was quite hard to pack everything in,’ Wire boasts), kissing, embracing and writhing around in an array of S & M paraphernalia including gas masks, blindfolds and ropes. Sean sensibly refused to join in, but was punished by being made to wear a Batman mask.
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