Robbed hit of the week 6/11/18 - The Outfield's "Closer To Me"...
from the album Rockeye (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #43
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the British rock band with the American-sounding name, The Outfield, who were last seen scoring a top-40 pop hit at the beginning of 1991 with "For You". A year later, the duo of John Spinks and lead singer Tony Lewis released their fifth effort Rockeye, again with Simon Dawson on drums (he would eventually become an official member). The first single from the record was "Closer To Me", written and produced by Spinks...
"Closer To Me" peaked a couple of notches below the American top-40 in June of 1992. The song also popped on to the Mainstream Rock radio chart in Billboard for a week at #46. Up in Canada, the single was a minor hit at #78, as was the follow-up, "Winning It All" (CAN #94), which missed the American chart. The Outfield would put out a few more albums since, until the death of Jon Spinks of liver cancer in 2014.
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And here's the band performing the song live in concert...
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