I wrote and recorded "Sunglasses at Night" in the summer of 1983...I just turned 21...I was working in what was at the time my musical mecca, England. Eric Clapton had just played dobro guitar on one of my songs and I was hanging out at Pete Townsend's house chatting with him about the best London studio rooms and his favorite vocal mic pre-amps...cool...Heady times for a kid from Montreal with a dream ......So "Sunglasses at Night" was my first ever single from my debut album "First Offense"...It was a last minute addition to the disc...After it was released in November 1983, my life and the world around me changed forever.A major hit song was born, International success...cool....Was it the melody? or the lyric? Was it the video driven imaging? Luck of the draw or simply the sound of the times?...I suppose it was all of the above and none at all....From Bob Hope to Wyclef Jean the song struck a chord and understanding this alchemy remains mystery to us all...Fast forward to the summer of 2002, I get a call from my record label Sony who ask me if I am interested in participating on a remix/recut of the song?...It seems to be the season, as several new versions of the track were being sampled/reworked and regrooved for release around the world....I thought about it and decided I would resing the vocal. Sony hooked me up with Original 3. This is our collaboration together...In my opinion nothing will ever replace the magical innocence of the original but then again this is not the purpose here...I'm always searching for discovery that intention can't find...cool again.

- Corey Hart