BACK TO LIFE (HOWEVER DO YOU WANT ME)

"Back to Life (However Do You
Want Me)" is a song by British R&B band Soul II Soul.
It appeared on their debut album Club Classics Vol. One ("Keep on
Movin'" in the United States) and was released as its second
single in1989. "Back to Life" was one of
two songs on the album featuring British R&B singer Caron Wheeler and
gained success in both the UK and in the U.S.

The album
version of the song was an a cappella which
was remixed and re-recorded before being released as a single. Two new versions
were produced — the first taking the original recording with instrumentation
added, and the second was a re-working of the song with new lyrics and chorus
(also adding "However Do You Want Me" to the title).

It was this
second version that became most popular. "Back to Life (However Do You
Want Me)" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot
100, becoming one of Soul II Soul's most successful singles in the
U.S. (and the only one to enter in the top 10). In the UK it performed even
better, reaching number one in the UK Singles
Chart for four weeks in June 1989. For a time, the album was
packaged together with a CD3 single including the new versions of the song.