Neil We had decided for the b-sides of 'It's Alright', as we had for the b-sides of 'Suburbia', to repeat the idea of having one song each. We thought: that worked before- let's do it again. The original idea for this song came because Chris said in an interview on TV that he liked following fashion and that he didn't like to stand out, he liked to be one of the crowd.

Chris Wanting to just fit in, rather than stand outside it. This is where I invented lads' culture. Pop music has never been the same since I released that. After that you had the likes of Liam and Damon all dressed up in ordinary clothes, wanting to be one of the crowd.

Neil Interesting this is.

Chris Because before then, everyone wanted to be different.

Neil Like I still do.

Chris Neil would never have sung 'One of the crowd'.

Neil Although I do on the record, in fact. Chris's voice is through a voiceover. I remember we were in the studio doing this - it was a Saturday afternoon; WE were working on a Saturday, unusually - and I went down to the Portobello market with my friend Rosemary while Chris put the vocal on this, because of course he didn't want anyone in the studio while he did the vocal.

And we came back and he played it to me - 'when I go fishing with my rod/I often get that urge...' - and we were rolling around the studio with laughter at the sheer moronic ness of the words.