Sire liked “Boy,” and signed Book of Love following the band’s second-ever show. Once the “Boy” demo was completed, Roselli slipped a copy to Ivan Ivan, a DJ who played regularly at The Pyramid Club – one of the band’s regular haunts – and the co-producer of leftfield 1984 dance hit “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight.” “He basically had the ears of Seymour Stein at Sire and was bringing him some new things he found interesting,” says Ottaviano. I put them on the demo and obviously it was the thing that set off the whole track.” (In the years that followed, tubular bells would become one of Book of Love’s signature sounds.) “I was like, ‘We are using these.’“ He adds with a laugh, “It was a message from God. “There happened to be a set of tubular bells sitting there,” says Ottaviano. The demo for “Boy” was recorded in 1984 at a studio called Noise New York, and it was there that the group, which also included Lauren Roselli and Jade Lee, stumbled across the song’s other key element. We were staying at home and we were practicing and writing. “I will always love ’60s music and the art of the double entendre sort of came from that era… Our music was pretty much literally made with toys – Casios – and so it was really at a place where we were disciplining ourselves to take our music seriously. At first glance, the song’s third verse could be construed as a masturbation reference, and though that wasn’t Ottaviano’s explicit intention, he knew the lines might raise an eyebrow or two.