A short track, just one minute six seconds. A very perky spicey number, dear. Brian likes that one.
A very typically, typically English ditty. You can snap your fingers to this one.
That's the way the mood takes me. That's just one aspect of me, and I can really change. I love doing the vaudeville side of things. It's quite a sort of test. I love writing things like that and I'm sure I'm going to do more than that. It's quite a challenge.
The things that we did in the lead vocal off of this is that we needed the megaphone effect... We also ran out of tracks so that when we needed to do guitars we also did those on the vocal tracks.
In those days a lot of the effects that we used were natural effects as opposed to digital, which we use today. He was singing in the studio, it was being fed into the console; the console was then sending it out to a pair of headphones which were in a metal can, and then the microphone was in the metal can recording the voice coming out of the can, and that is what went to tape.
I usually hear stuff like that in my head first and then I try to emulate that on the track. I work it out, generally against the piano. But that one wasn't too difficult. It was done very quickly because I knew what I was going to do. I think that part is just double tracked and that's all. It's all fingerboard pickup into the AC-30 for what I call a spoony sound. It sounds a bit like when those old music-hall guys used to play the spoons. Actually something between that and the guy who used to play the saw with a violin bow, which is a great sound!