Move on, don’t hesitate
Few will remember the British jazz-pop band Swing Out Sister. However, some will remember singer-composer Corinne Drewery wrote the chart-topping single Breakout in 1986. She wrote the song while recovering from a fractured skull and under pressure from Mercury Records to produce something over the weekend by the following Monday morning, or risk being dropped. The resulting song was described by critics as a “bubbling dynamic number with irresistible rhythm and power melodic vocals”. This critique was unexpected, as its lyrics suggested:
The time has come to make or break
