It reached number twenty four on the UK Singles Chart.

"Listening to that again reminded me of coming out of jail [after being arrested for alleged assault in 1980]," John Lydon told Select in 1990.

I left Dublin and went straight into the studio for two weeks solid: slept there, did everything myself, practically.

No band; couldn't find Keith; more or less had to engineer the bloody thing myself cos the engineer there ran out going, 'That's impossible – you can't do that!'

"[1] Writing in 2002, writer Garry Mulholland described the song as "the strangest chart record of the last 25 years, maybe ever.