In 1981, April Wine took the world by storm with their song “Just Between You and Me.”
Written by late frontman and guitarist Myles Goodwyn, the powerful song featured layered guitars, lush keyboards, and heartfelt lyrics about love and devotion.
With Goodwyn performing vocals that included “Just between you and me/Always I know our love will be,” the song fell firmly into the power ballad category and became the Canadian band’s career-defining, signature song.
A single from the album The Nature of the Beast, “Just Between You and Me” not only became a massive hit, climbing to No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1981, but it was among the first 15 music videos played when MTV made its debut in August of that year.
April Wine guitarist Brian Greenway recently told Ultimate Classic Rock that “Just Between You and Me” took a long time to record.
“The simplest songs can be the hardest to do," he shared in May 2026. "Just getting the drum track just right, it must have been about four or five hours."[Drummer] Jerry [Mercer], I don't know if he wasn't in the right frame of mind that day, but he'd get something right, [and then have issues] with something else. I was playing rhythm guitar -- and there was just a guide guitar with bass. I finally gave up, because I wasn't getting the right feel with it either."
"So [guitarist] Gary [Moffet], the king of tempo and rhythm playing, came in and they got that track," he continued. "Then, we could proceed to put guitars and more guide vocals [down] and then finish it up."
Forty-five years after recording "Just Between You and Me," April Wine continues to perform their career-defining power ballad live, most recently during a 2026 tour with Triumph.
In an interview with WNST, Greenway explained why April Wine’s music still resonates with fans decades later.
“There's no time elements with our songs that date anything,” he shared. “People… it reminds them of a time in their life, which is ideally what music should be able to do is bring back a nice memory. And we don't make them, you know, we just write the lyrics, and we all… myself included, we hear a song, we associate it with what we're doing at the time. And if we really like it, it's embedded in our memories. That's just where it stays.”
“And I'm so happy that this happens,” the April Wine guitarist added. “And it's such a joy to be able to still play these songs so many years later.”
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