Adultery

About Adultery

Adultery is a song by Australian rock/pop group Do-Ré-Mi, released by Virgin Records in October 1987, as the lead single from the band's second studio album, The Happiest Place in Town. The song peaked at number 27 on the Australian charts.

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The single has five tracks, which were written by lead vocalist Deborah Conway, drummer Dorland Bray, bass guitarist Helen Carter and guitarist Stephen Philip. Three of these has been released as previous singles.

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Track listing

"Adultery" (Bray, Carter, Philip)

"Deep Blue Sea"

"Guns and Butter"

"Idiot Grin"

"Warnings Moving Clockwise"

Personnel

Do-Ré-Mi members

Dorland Bray — drums, percussion, backing vocals

Helen Carter — bass guitar, backing vocals

Deborah Conway — lead vocalist

Stephen Philip — guitar

Additional musicians

Roger Freeman — trombone

Steve Hogarth — keyboards

Recording details

Producer, engineer — Gavin MacKillop

Assistant engineer — Chris Potter, Mike Bigwood, Steve Chase

Studio — Townhouse III Studios London

Mixing studio — Maison Rouge Studios London, Genetic Studios Reading

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Notable quotes

“The revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian: Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911), , n.
“     Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice ne la miseria.”
— No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when mis’ry is at hand!
“I saw a little burnished fly Within my Mistress' bodice lie, Sipping lovely stolen sweets From her ample rosy teats. "Small adulterer," said I, "Dost thou know where thou dost lie? 'Tis my lady’s bosom fine, And thou dost sip what is not thine."”
— Richard Le Gallienne, "Adultery—Ad Absurdum", in T. R. Smith, ed., Poetica Erotica (New York, 1922), vol. iii, pp. 251-2
“To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband . . . and that the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say, not the Lord, . . . But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.”
— Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 7:10–15 (RSV)
“Not even his friends could deny that he often committed adultery, though of course they said, in justification, that he did so for reasons of state, not simple passion — he wanted to discover what his enemies were at by getting intimate with their wives or daughters.”
— Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, 'Augustus' 69 (tr. Robert Graves, 1957)
“No one walks together with him or directs their steps towards him. Life passes him by like water. He is dear to no just man, plague prevails over him. Like a worthless penny. [...] He is clothed with a garment as if a heavy punishment were assigned to him. Who is he? His name? A man sleeping with someone's wife.”
— Sumerian proverb (); XXIII, ETCSL

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