The song reached number 57, at that time the official list only compiled the top 50 positions, but it appeared on Breakers for 2 weeks.

The song features a ragtime piano opening, which serves the somewhat retro lyrics some justice, although it is soon set against a backdrop of guitars and drums.

and that there is also "a shrill organ, unusual guitar and synthesizer lines, and the creative use of a barrelhouse piano.

The video is in fact rather similar: Bowie stands alone against a white backdrop singing the song alone.

However, Stanley Dorfman's new clip featured a Bowie in make-up and clothing influenced by Buster Keaton and giving an irreverent, detached performance on a guitar, which does gel with the candid feeling generated by the song.