Editing Timex Social Club (section)

===Tour===
The success of the single "Rumors" prompted hip hop impresario [[Russell Simmons]] to hire the group as the opening act for 38 dates on [[Run DMC]]'s [[Raising Hell (album)|Raising Hell]] tour in 1986.<ref name="Flashbacks to Happiness: Eighties Music Revisited">{{cite book|first=Randolph|last=Michaels|year=2005|title=Flashbacks to Happiness: Eighties Music Revisited|location=US|isbn=978-0-595-37007-8|pages=196, 198}}</ref> Other acts on the tour were [[Beastie Boys]], [[LL Cool J]], and [[Whodini]]. Besides solo dates, the group also opened for [[New Edition]], [[Midnight Star (band)|Midnight Star]], [[the S.O.S. Band]], [[Kool & the Gang]], and [[Jermaine Jackson]].<ref name="How Do Rumors Get Started: The True Story of Timex Social Club">{{cite book|first=Marcus|last=Thompson|year=2011|title=How Do Rumors Get Started: The True Story of Timex Social Club|location=US|isbn=978-1-257-28542-6|pages=6, 173}}</ref>