This is a really interesting one - complex, subtle, filled with songs I don't really know and then of course one mega-smash-hit at the end with Kiss. I was always more familiar with the Age of Chance version, and presumably Tom Jones has made a bob or two out of it as well. It feels much more - composed? - as an album, less jams and funk riffs, more pianos and verses and choruses, but still with an unmistakable riff machine waiting in the wings.

There is a lot going on here, and a lot of additional talent to call on. And once again it's a soundtrack - with two more still to come in this stretch of hit-making. It doesn't sound like incidental music, that's for sure, but then neither did Purple Rain. The film sounds absolutely appalling, but there's something quite endearing about tying with Howard the Duck for Worst Film of the Year. Victor Spinetti certainly seems like an interesting dude, and not many people can say they were in three Beatles films.

Ultimately this one is a bit of a curio for me, certainly an album I was well aware of at the time. Something about it isn't cutting through, though. I was probably too busy with The Smiths at the time. But I remember the next one - and it feels like we're careering somewhere, to success or oblivion. This is an unstoppable purple machine. Can anyone stop it?