Neil  Chris wrote this piece of music by himself in the studio. Tom Watkins had a group at the time called The Hudsons who'd brought out a record called 'One Man's Meat (Is Another Man's Poison)' and Tom Watkins had really brilliant idea fora gay disco record, 'I'm In Love With A woman', and we said we'd write it. And so when Chris wrote this music, we decided this would be it: 'I never thought I would leave you - but I'm in love with a woman'. It was great, but Tom got sniff all of a sudden and didn't want us to do it.

Chris I'd already put my vocal on when I did the track. I just thought I'd have a go. It's just a list of words.

Neil  Very Andy warhole.

Chris They were the first words that came into my head.

Neil  Weren't they things that really excited you, supposedly?

Chris Well, they're obviously going to be the first words that come into my head.

Neil  Then we heard about the Paninaro.

Chris The Italian youth cult.

Neil  So we decided to make a song called 'Paninaro' and made this it. I liked the fact that all the trendiest in Milan loathed the Paninaro because 'they all like Wham! And Duran Duran and Madonna'. We thought, 'How fabulous-so do we'. I like fashion cults, and theirs were the kind of clothes we liked.

Chris The original lyric went 'Armani. . Armani... Ar-Ar-Armani. . Versace.. .Thque'. Then I edited out 'Versace', but I forgot to edit it out of the twelve-inch version.

Neil  We didn't like Versa that much. Also Versa wasn't Paninaro.

Chris The twelve-inch was called 'The Italian mix' because originally it was just released in Italy.

 Neil  The talking in the middle is also Chris, from an American TV interview, on Entertainment Tonight. We did the original version at Abbey Road but then we decided it wasn't good enough, so then we went in with Adrian Cook and did it all again. Adrian Cook was going to programme the first tour; the one that famously went on sale in Los Angeles without anyone telling us, five nights at the Pant ages Theatre sold out, and which we didn't do. He was programming all our songs onto Firelight in Abbey Road - as usual, money was flying around - so we decided to do a record that recycled sounds, so almost every sound in 'Paninaro' had been used before on one of our records. It's a recycled record. It was a nightmare, Chris doing his vocal.

Chris You know what I'm like.

Neil  I think he only did it twice.

Chris I was only saying a list of words.

Neil  It was like getting blood out of a stone.