"Children Say" is a 1987 song by Level 42. Written by Mark King,

Mike Lindup Michael David Lindup (born 17 March 1959) is a musician best known as the keyboard player and falsetto voiced singer, who joined with Mark King and brothers Phil and Boon Gould to form the British jazz-funk/pop rock band, Level 42. Early li ...

and Phil Gould, it was the final single to be issued from their album, ''

Running in the Family ''Running in the Family'' is the seventh studio album by British band Level 42, released in 1987. It features the UK hit singles: "Lessons in Love" (which reached No. 3 in May 1986), "Running in the Family" (No. 6 in February 1987), "To Be wit ...

''. The song made the top 30 in the UK, and the top 10 in the Netherlands, and followed a series of successes with the hits " Lessons in Love", "

", " To Be With You Again" and " It's Over".

Promo video

The video of the song was the first of Level 42's career not to feature the brothers

Phil Phil may refer to: * Phil (given name), a shortened version of masculine and feminine names * Phill, a given name also spelled "Phil" * Phil, Kentucky, United States * ''Phil'' (film), a 2019 film * -phil-, a lexical fragment, used as a root te ...

and

Boon Gould Rowland Charles "Boon" Gould (4 March 1955 – 30 April 2019) was an English musician and one of the four founding members of Level 42. Career Gould was born in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight. He was the guitarist of Level 42 and occasional sax ...

, who had recently left the band. The video was shot in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. The Gould brothers are also missing from the sleeve of the single.

Charts

References

Level 42 songs Songs written by Mark King (musician) Songs written by Phil Gould (musician) Songs written by Mike Lindup 1987 singles 1987 songs {{1980s-single-stub