How we made Breakout by Swing Out Sister: ‘The record label hated it. It wasn’t cool to be upbeat’

Family affair … Andy Connell and Corinne Drewery of Swing Out Sister in 1987. Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images

Corinne Drewery, vocals/co-writer

I’d fallen off a horse and fractured my skull. I was incapacitated – I couldn’t move – so with nothing to do but recover, I started scribbling down loads of notes. I was having strange, dark, creative thoughts. I didn’t think I was writing lyrics, but they ended up being the basis of Swing Out Sister’s first album, It’s Better to Travel.