Naked Eyes is an English synthpop band, best known for their single, a cover of the Burt Bacharach / Hal David standard " Always Something There to Remind Me" (Bacharach himself has [LINK: http://www.bacharachonline.com/bacharach_articles/select_q&a.html] cited the cover as a personal favourite), and their subsequent hit Promises, Promises. Career Naked Eyes was the very first band to make significant use of the Fairlight CMI on a pop recording. Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush had used the sampling synthesiser on prior efforts, but the usage had been far less than Naked Eyes would employ on their debut effort. The debut album was produced by Tony Mansfield and re-touched in places by Alan Tarney. Interestingly, Mansfield's work would again be doctored by Tarney when he produced the debut album for A-ha (Hunting High and Low). The group consisted of childhood friends from Bath, England, Pete Byrne on vo

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