Neil  I was going to Edinburgh to see a painting by James Pryde, which I own, exhibited in the National Gallery of Scotland, and I can remember quite clearly in the taxi on the way to the airport -the bit where you drive past those skyscrapers on the M4 going to Heathrow where the road goes up - I suddenly thought, 'I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing'. Maybe it was because it was what I was thinking -wouldn't normally fly back and forth from somewhere in a day. And it was in my head all day long; I had the whole thing, the whole song. It was all very easy. And we were in the studio the following day and did a demo, and the version on the album isn't very different. Stephen Hague put the little guitar riff at the front - we just had the piano.

Chris For the single version [CD2, track 7] we roped in some hip and happening dance producers.
Neil  The Beatmasters took the guitar riff and made the whole thing much more Sixties. At the time I thought I preferred the single version, but now I quite like the economy of the album version, and I like the instrumental break Chris wrote in the middle, and that's different in the seven-inch. It's a song about a reserved Englishman, falling in love and going bonkers. It's partly based on my own experiences, but it would be a mistake to think of it as a picture of me, because I'm not a totally reserved person. It's written a bit like a Noel Coward song - it's a list song,

just a lot of things he wouldn't normally do. I was very pleased with the line about taking all my clothes off and dancing to The Rite of Spdng. I always used to like the cartoons in The Observer by the American cartoonist, Feiffer where a woman would say, for instance, 'this is my dance for spring...', and jump in the air, and then there would be a funny pay-off line.

I always imagined it being like that. I think the man in the video who does that bit is somewhat disappointing. I remember when we finished the album I went to Manchester and played it to Johnny Marr and when I put this on he started laughing, and laughed all the way through it.