Neil We’d rented a studio in Notting Hill belonging to one of alitravox, and we worked on 'So hard' and 'Only the wind' there, and did a rough demo of 'Maybe This Time' from Cabaret, which Liza Minnelli turned down.

Chris Let's not forget we had an office in Notting Hill before the All Saints had even got their name.

Neil  And before the film came out. Chris started playing the piano and I thought, 'wow, that is a fantastic tune'.

Chris I'd already written it on my piano at home in High bury.

Neil  I wrote the words on the spot, and the reason it's called 'Only the wind' is because in fact there was a hurricane outside, and there were bins blowing down the road. You weren't supposed to go outside because there were dustbins flying through the air in Notting Hill Gate, and corrugated iron flying about. The wind made me think of anger. So the idea of the song was someone's gone round to see some couple... you know when you arrive at someone's house and there's obviously a major row going on and one of theme’s not there. It's a couple, and he's a wife­ beater. Everything he says is a lie. 'No one's been lying...' - he thinks she's been lying to her so he's whacked her. It's a very violent song, and the wind is a metaphor for the domestic violence, and for a huge row. He keeps denying you can hear anyone crying, stuff like that. The whole song builds up to him saying sorry, because he knows that he has done wrong. But, listening to him, we think that he is absolutely pathetic and she should leave him. Angelo Badalamenti did the strings.

Chris It's a very fragile vocal.

Neil Robbie Williams once sang the whole song to me in the Groucho Club upstairs bar. It was in his drinking days.