Neil Chris and I went to this house near Corydon to write some songs and we wrote 'king's Cross' and this. You may think it sounds a bit like 'Peter Gunn', which was a hit for the art of Noise. That's because we were in a New York club, The Pyramid, and they were playing The art of Noise version of 'Peter Gunn' and I found myself singing 'hit music - on the radio' to it in the taxi on the way home. The sort of idea you think of in America. So we did the song anyway. It's not exactly the same.

Chris You can't copyright a baseline.

Neil It’s also very like 'Venus'. Md the strings are a bit Beatle-y, a bit like 'I Am The Walrus'. And the 'I've been working hard all day to pay the bills I have to pay' line is a complete nick from the Abba song, 'Money Money Money'. It didn't occur to me until years afterwards. I mean, it's not a very original lyric anyway. Someone at the time suggested that I was obsessed with bills because I'd already mentioned them three times in songs - I was actually rather horrified when I realised that. But I like 'in Kensington or Spanish Harlem'. I wanted to have two totally contrasting places. The best bit of the song is the end where it goes into half time. We did that because we

Always liked the end of 'Careless Whisper' by George Michael. The song is partly about the idea of pop music as a prop oar crutch, and about the annoyance and banality of hit music - 'desperate hit music' -even as you really like it. But it's really all about its, this song, though I sort of hid it at the same time. There were some more direct references, but I took them out because they weren't very good. It's about how sex had gone out of the entire nightclubbing ethos because of Aids. Nightclubbing is about sex, really, so when it's not, what's left?