‘It was our response to glamour photos of Mel resurfacing’: how we made Mel & Kim’s Respectable

‘It’s a middle finger up to the establishment’ … sisters Mel (left) and Kim Appleby in 1987. Photograph: Mike Prior/Redferns

Kim Appleby, vocals

A few years before Respectable, Mel had done some glamour photos. Obviously, the photographer who took the pictures saw that we’d had a hit with our debut single, Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend), and bang, the pictures started to surface in the tabloids.