- Pete Waterman: We had the polyester up the kazoo at that point. Polyesters must have been bloody driving the synthesizers at one point.
- Pete Waterman: Christ! They sell millions and millions and millions of records, and then you play "The Day Before You Came". I'd think I might as well go back to being a bloody janitor.
- Charles Hazlewood: S.O.S. is in D-minor which is, if you believe Spinal Tap, the saddest of all keys.
- Pete Waterman: They didn't say anything about bloody life? The Winner Takes It All? How many people have been divorced? By God! They said more about everything than any other band.
- Charles Hazlewood: It seemed to me that it was the beginning of the end. God, I'm slightly welling up even remembering that actually.
- Jude Rogers: I can't listen to that without crying. It's just so upsetting!
- Kim Wilde: It's one of the most painful songs to listen to if you're in the wrong kind of mood.