Weekend: I was going to Miami to interview Wham! For Smash Hits and then I was meeting Chris in New York. It was meant to be our Bobby '0' single after 'One more chance', and he got some Puerto Rican people to remix it, but it never came out. When we recorded this at the beginning of 1988 it was going to be for Introspective. We wanted to have a guitar on it and we phoned up Eric Clapton's manager to see if Eric Clapton would play on it. Amazingly that was where our heads were at at the time. They said no but they were very nice about it. When we recorded it, we did the whole thing as we had done it on the demo, and then I went to the boy if I go out of the room Chris often gets wickedly creative-and Chris turned it into a house track. Then we decided to put

in a middle bit with really silly words about the neighbours talking. We got Stephen Lipson to play a really rock guitar solo.

Chris I think we realised it would make a good b-side. In retrospect, I think it might have been better as a Bobby 'O'-style record.

Neil The basis of the song is the famous Oscar Wilde quote: 'we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars'. Originally it had a funny lyric about being really excited about things. It had a rap where I shouted things, and I know I mentioned lots of funny names like Dame Anna Neagle at one point. I remember I made up the words 'I hear the. sound of the subway, the sigh of the heat/the click of the visitors' heels on the street' walking down Regent Street and I was rather pleased with them. It's about being in New York. Being me, I don't think it ever occurred to me that it sounded rude. It's never entered my head that it had any sexual connotation at all.
Chris I think we can safely say that Neil's subconscious is very active.

Neil It probably is, but it's not about sex - it's about being in New York and being really excited about it. Though you've got no money and you're having a grim time you're still excited. Two friends having a laugh. Maybe they're excited because they're in love, But maybe they're just tourists. I just like the idea of irrational excitement.