A number 40 doesn't always mean that the music act in question is finished. Sometimes they're just getting started, having a minor blip, never that popular in the first place etc. In this case though, the band really were finished.
Just over a year earlier, The Tourists made their Top 40 debut ironically reaching number 40 in the first week with "The Loneliest Man In The World" which would peak at 32 a couple of weeks later.
At the end of 1979 they had their biggest hit with a cover of "I Only Want To Be With You" by Dusty Springfield which made number 4. This was followed up by another Top 10 hit with "So Good To Be Back Home Again".
In October 1980 came this, their final Top 40 hit. It was on their final album "Luminous Basement" which was released a month or so later.
They went on tour to promote this around the same sort of time when chief songwriter Peet Coombes pulled out of the tour early leaving Dave Stewart, Annie Lennox and the rest of the band to continue without him. This marked the end of The Tourists and the start of Eurythmics.
The Tourists never reunited at all following the breakup and as Peet Coombes died in 1997 they never will, so this really was the end of the band.
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