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Clarke originally intended "One Day" to be the second single for his project The Assembly , which utilized different guest vocalists for each track.

Clarke pursued the collaboration because he had "done nothing for so long" and was becoming bored after what he described as a "miserable" previous year. Musical Composition vince_clarkepaul_quinn_one_day_extension_1985_a...

It features Quinn’s soulful, New Romantic vocals over melancholic synthesizer textures and open drum machine beats. Critics have noted that its "acoustic guitar mimicking synth strum" foreshadowed the sound of future Erasure hits like "Ship of Fools". Clarke originally intended "One Day" to be the