"More to Lose" is the debut single by

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new wave duo Seona Dancing, released in 1983. It is an uptempo new wave pop song, sung by a then-unknown

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, who was the lyricist and vocalist of the band. Bill Macrae was the band's composer and

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. The song remains virtually unknown in their homeland of the UK, after only peaking at No. 117 on the

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, but found tremendous success in the

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in 1985, a year after the band broke up.

Success in the Philippines

In 1985,

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started playing the song, deliberately misnaming it as "Fade" by Medium (also billed as "Medium" by Fade), to prevent other rival stations finding the song and playing it for themselves. To make it impossible for other

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to record the song and play it on their own station, DWRT-FM even inserted a

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midway through the track. A year later, radio station DWXB-102 revealed the true identity of the song. Michael Sutton on AllMusicAllmusic.com "More to Lose" became an instant hit among Filipino teenagers. The song also swept the nation's

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and received endless airplay on Manila FM stations throughout the mid-1980s.

References

{{Authority control 1983 songs 1983 debut singles Seona Dancing songs Songs written by Ricky Gervais London Records singles