It was produced by ex-Mott the Hoople members Dale Griffin and Pete "Overend" Watts,[2] and was the first with Razzle on drums.

Besides Hanoi Rocks, the album also features keyboardist Morgan Fisher, and Miriam Stockley on backing vocals, who had also sung with Pink Floyd.

This song was inspired by a London apartment full of rats, in Tooting Bec, where Hanoi Rocks lived.

Andy McCoy wrote this song at the band's manager Seppo Vesterinen's house in Helsinki.

At the time of its release, the song was very popular, but it has since been overshadowed by the many other Hanoi Rocks' hits.

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau said that Monroe and McCoy lack hooks, are backed by "cute if over-calculated" dual guitar playing, and "yowl English-language lyrics that must impress Finns more than native speakers like myself.