"[4] Damon Albarn wrote the original version of the song following a night out with Blur bassist Alex James and Marianne Faithfull.

"[5] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian commented that as the album comes to a close "we find Damon Albarn reflecting on the passing of time."

The reviewer explicitly described this song's lyrical beginning "years ago, somewhere on the Goldhawk Road" as more than a "reference to the west London thoroughfare whose traffic noise appears on the 1995 Blur album The Great Escape" (this London thoroughfare is the noise at the start of the song "Ernold Same" from that album).

On the day the single was released, Apple Inc. and EMI announced a new deal to end that label's use of digital rights management.

The remainder of EMI's online catalogue underwent upgrades to the same superior quality download rate (320 kbit/s) shortly thereafter.