Neil  In 1990 Bobby Brown was very popular; particularity the song 'Every Little Step'. Chris used to be able to do the dance.

Chris I'd like to have been able to do it.

Neil  He used to dolt backstage. So we decided to do a swing beat song. This was the song which made an American friend of mine take this album back to the shop. He was so shocked we'd done a swingbeat song - he was absolutely appalled. There's also a guitar solo by me, actually played on the guitar. I'm also playing the power chords. We wrote this in Scotland. I'd just got a distortion box. I think if I was really being honest the idea for the lyric started with Bros. We'd had the same manager and we were always rather fascinated by Bros. Bros came back with their second album and they said to Terry Wogan on Wogan that they were 'about longevity'.

Chris and I just loved this so much - we used to go on and on talking about longevity. The idea that you could be 'about longevity', not that you would achieve longevity... it just seemed like a really weird way of thinking. And of course, as it happened, Bros only had about three months to go. The words are about the aspirations and pomposity of pop stars and it just lists all these things that pop stars do and then says, 'how can you expect to be taken seriously?' There's the normal attack on any number of rock stars supporting humanitarian causes. We'd ranted on about this for the second half of the Eighties. 1990 was kind of rainforest time, and the ozone layer. My point always was that these were, and are, very serious issues and they were trivialised by pop stars going on and on about them, and I predicted that pop stars would very quickly lose interest in them and therefore the issues themselves would seem to be tired eariy Nineties issues and no one would take them seriously. I think I was right. There's also an attack on the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame. When you

think of how rock started as this amazing rebellious thing, this fusion of country'n'western and run’s and some wild white trash called Elvis Presley... and it ends up in an annual dinner in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York with a lot of people in dinner suits nominating each other to the a Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame. It always seemed sort of ridiculous to me to have institutionalised the whole thing. The bit where I ask, 'Do you have a message for your fans?' was a boy band thing - people hadn't had a message for their fans for decades, since the Sixties, and suddenly people were doing it again. When I was writing the song Chris said, 'Do you think you should make the words nastier?', because actually the words at the start were a bit airy-fairy. It hadn't occurred to me, and suddenly I thought, 'Oh, it should be really horrible.' It's a bit of a 'You're So Vain' concept, really.