Mad About You (Song)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mad About You is a pop song written by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan and Mitchel Young Evans, produced by Michael Lloyd, for Belinda Carlisle's debut solo album Belinda. It was released as the album's first single, in 1986, as a CD single (one of the first ever marketed), 7" single and a 12" single. It was her first hit after leaving the Go-Go's, peaking at Number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and at Number 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart. The year that the song was released, Carlisle married Morgan Mason, who appears with Belinda in the video for "Mad About You". The guitar solo on the song was performed by Andy Taylor (of Duran Duran), who also appears in the video which was directed by Leslie Libman. The song was actually a Go-Go's reunion of sorts: Paula Jean Brown (who took Jane Wiedlin's spot in the band just before it broke up) co-wrote the song, and Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey sang back-up vocals. Besides, the intro to the Go-Go's song called "This Old Feeling" (a track on their second album, Vacation) features a typical bassline, which resurfaces, more or less unaltered, on the intro to Belinda's first solo hit.