The first time I heard this on radio it was totally mind blowing. I was used to Bowie and T. Rex and The Beatles where you could hear the individual instruments playing. But this was a wall of sound. I didn't know then that Roy Wood, was mixing together the sound of Phil Spector and fifties rock and roll to make a new Glam epic. It just sounded fantastic banging out the radio. I was so excited after hearing it on the radio that I took the train to Box Hill to buy the single then, when I made my way home to Blackburn South I got on my bicycle and rode over to my girlfriend's house in Blackburn North so I could play this utterly fantastic record to her. She though I'd bought it for her which caused a few problems. "No, I just wanted you to hear it". A week later I rode round with a Gary Glitter ep. to make up for not giving her this single.
These were the days of Glam pop and I'd thought I'd found my new pop gods. Unfortunately when I actually saw a picture of the band and saw Roy had make up and a beard I was a bit disheartened. Neither were any of their subsequent singles any good. But they left behind one perfect single.
Later I found out Roy Wood was the leader of The Move in the sixties and wrote great songs like "Flowers in The Rain" and "Fire Brigade"
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