The track was written by Toyah Willcox and Joel Bogen, and produced by Nick Tauber.

I was getting so many letters back then from fans who had been suspended from school, who'd been in permanent detention, who were banned from leaving their home because they dyed their hair bright colours like me.

[2] The song was released in August 1982 as a 7" vinyl single and a 12" transparent picture disc.

Toyah promoted it with performances in British TV shows Razzmatazz and Crackerjack!, among others, as well as Discoring on Italian television.

The single and its B-side "Laughing with the Fools" were not included on an album at the time, though both would eventually be included on the 2005 reissue of Love Is the Law, while the title track became the lead song on the 1998 compilation The Best of Toyah: Proud, Loud & Heard, hand-picked by Toyah Willcox herself.