Australian singles chart:
Moonlighting entered the Kent Music Report on 15 September 1975 and peaked at #13. It was #71 on the Top 100 of 1975.
Album:
The song is on Another Year which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 15 September 1975 and peaked at #3.
Songwriters:
Leo Sayer, Frank Farrell
Producers:
Adam Faith, Russ Ballard
Record label of Australian release:
Chrysalis
Leo Sayer and his Australian band performing Moonlighting live at The Athaneum Theatre, Melbourne in November 2019:
Wikipedia:
Moonlighting was inspired by a roadie with Leo Sayer who fell in love with the daughter of a chief of police in the late 1960s. The chief was not pleased about this and would not agree for them to get married, so the couple ran off and eloped to Gretna Green in Scotland, where this would be possible. However, they never made it there, as they were stopped by Carlisle police who had been made aware by Worthing police of the couple’s intentions.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlighting_(Leo_Sayer_song)
Lyrics:
He sees her at the same time every night
At the Mexican discotheque
She gives him French kisses
He gives her French cigarettes
They sit at the same table every time
The lights are low
But their eyes shine
Just digging the music from those sweet soul bands
She keeps him outta fights
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