Room that Echoes

When I first wrote the song, I wasn’t even going to bring it to the band. It took me five minutes to write – and then Margaret heard me playing it one day and said we should do. It has a menacing, slightly malicious air to it. I still don’t know how it got to No.1.

– Songwriter Neville Hall on Peking Man number one Room That Echoes, Rip It Up, June 1986

Yes, it’s me! What they did was put a filter on the camera and I could see my silhouette on the monitor. The room was all blue and they superimposed my silhouette onto the background. The effects were generated by some machine or other.

– Margaret Urlich on dancing solo in video for her hit Room That Echoes, Shake! magazine, January 1986

It’s a song about isolation and wanting to be isolated.

– Peking Man bassist Tim Calder on the meaning behind hit Room That Echoes, AudioCulture