Find the Time

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"Find the Time"
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Single by Five Star
from the album Silk & Steel
B-side "Sky"
Released20 June 1986
Genre Pop
Length4:29
Label RCA, Tent
Songwriter(s) Paul Gurvitz, Nick Trevisick
Producer(s) Richard James Burgess
Five Star singles chronology
"Can't Wait Another Minute"
(1986)
"Find the Time"
(1986)
"Rain or Shine"
(1986)

"Find the Time" is a 1986 single by the British pop group Five Star. It was the second single to be taken from their million-plus selling second album, Silk & Steel, and peaked at #7 in the UK in July 1986.

The single was written by Nick Trevisick and Paul Gurvitz who had written the single "R.S.V.P." for the band the previous year.

The video features the band performing a dance routine alongside the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament in London.

The song was also featured on the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on the fictional in-game station "Vice City FM".

Track listings

7" single and picture disc:

  1. "Find the Time" (Single Version) 3:58
  2. "Sky"


12" single: PT40800

  1. "Find the Time" (Phil Harding Midnight Mix) 6:59
  2. "Find the Time" (Dub) *
  3. "Sky"
  4. "Find the Time" (Single Version)


2nd 12" single: PT40800R

  1. "Find the Time" (Shep Pettibone Remix–Part One) 6:16
  2. "Find the Time" (Shep Pettibone Remix–Part Two) aka (Dub Mix) on Disc 9 12 Mixes 2 of 'Luxury - The Definitive Anthology 1984-1991'
  3. "Sky"
  4. "Find the Time" (Phil Harding Midnight Mix) 6:59


All tracks available on the remastered versions of either the 2010 'Silk & Steel' album, the 2013 'The Remix Anthology (The Remixes 1984-1991)' or the 2018 'Luxury - The Definitive Anthology 1984-1991' boxset EXCEPT * "Find The Time" (Dub) - only available on vinyl

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