Neil  This is played by Chris on the piano in Advision. Stephen Hague insisted. He thought it would be great if we played something live on the album.

Chris I'm amazed I agreed.

Neil  I sat on a stool and sang the song, and Chris played the piano, and we had dim lighting and it was really lovely and I really enjoyed doing it.

Chris I would never do that now.

Neil  You play a solo.

Chris How come I'm doing that? It's absolutely absurd.

Neil  This is such a sad song. This is the most gay song we've ever written, practically, and no one noticed at the time. It was about three of us staring out of the window from the Smash Hits office at a cute boy walking down Carnaby Street. He was a mod. The line 'he is the head boy of a school of thought' was quoted in Select magazine as being one of the terrible lines of all time; I thought it was a good line. I've always thought we'll put this song in a musical at some point. It was originally written on a guitar. The song is saying that the boy is so out of your reach you will never meet him.. . but then, you wait till later.

Maybe it's destiny, or fate, because tonight always comes. So it may happen. Really it's about sex and class. People who like rough trade, it's an idealised and frustrating idea because you're fancying them for something they're not-they don't consider themselves to be rough trade. There was a whole other verse: 'you stare like a fellow new to town who can't believe his eyes/through plate glass you can always see so much you want but can never touch'. It wasn't very good.