Edith Stilwell declaimed it through a curtain with a megaphone while the music was playing.

Chris Was it slightly pretentious?

Neil In the Balkans in the 1930s, they were caught between Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany leading up to World War II. They had all these funny monarchies. There was King Zog of Albania, King Boris of Bulgaria and Prince Paul, the Regent of Yugoslavia, and they were all trying not to be allied to Hitler while trying to stop Stalin annexe half their lands. Don Juan is supposed to be Hitler or Stalin but I could never quite work out which. I think its Hitler. It's always interested me, that area. I suppose it's the hopelessness of it. The song attempts an Edith Stilwell use of words: 'an impasse has been reached with the teacher of the rich'. It's like someone coming to their senses: throughout all this decadence and complex language, they have this flash of complete reason.

Chris Then it goes into a bit which is like 'Flash dance (What A Feeling)'.

Neil In the last verse, everyone's resigned. Marie Lupescu - I got her name wrong; it's actually Madame Lupescu which is a bit embarrassing - was the mistress of King Carol of Romania, and practically ran the country. His wife was Marie and I confused the names. King Alexander of Yugoslavia of Marseilles was assassinated by terrorists in Marseilles.

Chris We recorded our demo [CD2, track 2] at the same time as 'Domino dancing' in Los Angeles.

Neil When we got there Chris wrote the 'I've got this sinking feeling' bit of music.

Chris A marvellous chord change, and it also goes with the lyrics. I also added the housey stuff for the intro.

Neil We had the idea of calling it 'It would be a disaster'. But we didn't. We released two versions of the finished song -the one here [CD2, track 7] is the disco mix, the longer of the two.