Who Can It Be Now?

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Chart positions
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Singles
Who Can It Be Now?
  DE 71 08/30/1982 (3 weeks)
  UK 45 10/30/1982 (5 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 07/10/1982 (27 weeks)

Who Can It Be Now? is a 1981 song by Men at Work , written by Colin Hay, and appeared on the album Business as Usual .

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Who Can It Be Now? is about a withdrawn, even paranoid man who hears someone knocking on his door and wants to be quiet. The mention of a childhood friend and the bridge in the song suggest that the protagonist is mentally unstable. The new wave song features a medium tempo saxophone solo played by Greg Ham. In the form of a call and response , the title (call) and a saxophone part (response) are inserted into the chorus.

Who Can It Be Now? was released in May 1981, and became a number one hit in the United States and Israel. In the Simpsons episode I Don't Want to Know Why the Fallen Bird is singing and the movie The Thing , the song was used.

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Germany / UK / US
  2. ^ Translation of the text on Golyr.de
  3. ↑ release date