"That Was Then but This Is Now" | ||||
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Single by ABC | ||||
from the album Beauty Stab | ||||
B-side | "Vertigo" | |||
Released | October 1983 | |||
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Genre | Pop rock | |||
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Music video | ||||
"That Was Then but This Is Now" on YouTube |
"That Was Then but This Is Now" is a song by the English new wave band ABC. It was released in late 1983 as the lead single from their second studio album, Beauty Stab. It was the band's third entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 89.
The music video shows them playing on a stage behind a huge Risk-style world map gameboard; scenes of the band playing, accompanied by various flags, are interspersed with scenes of a helicopter taking off and then exploding.