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So Good to Be Back Home Again
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = So Good to Be Back Home Again
| cover = File:The Tourists So Good to Be Back Home Again.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = The Tourists
| album = Reality Effect
| B-side = Circular Fever
| released =
| format =
| recorded = 1979
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = New wave
| length =
| label = Logo
| writer = Peet Coombes
| producer = Tom Allom
| prev_title = I Only Want to Be with You
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Don't Say I Told You So
| next_year = 1980
| misc =
}}
"'So Good to Be Back Home Again'" is a song by British band The Tourists, released in February 1980 as a single from the band's second album 'Reality Effect'. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.
Background and reception
After the surprising success of "I Only Want to Be with You", the band capitalised on this by releasing the similarly themed "So Good to Be Back Home Again". At the time, reviewing the song for 'Record Mirror', Simon Ludgate wrote that "they have enjoyed a great deal of publicity on the success of one single. It's vital therefore to produce a very strong second single and this will probably do the job", with it being "quite catchy". Logo Records' co-founder Geoff Hannington said "it would certainly have been my choice as the first single had we not had that cover". "It was an obvious commercial song to go with".
The energetic song "is one of The Tourists' few love songs, especially unlikely with its cheerful tone", with Annie Lennox and Peet Coombes harmonising together. It is also "clearly drawn from early Beatles'".
Cover version
It was covered by rock band The Wildhearts in 1997 as "So Good to Be Back Home". It was released as a B-side to their single "Anthem" and was included on the 2010 reissue of their album 'Endless, Nameless'.
Charts
References
Category:1980 singles
Category:1979 songs
Category:The Tourists songs
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