"Groovy Times" is a song by the Clash, featured on their The Cost of Living EP and also included with initial pressings of the US release of the band's debut album.
The song's lyrics are filled with images of urban decay and civil unrest and focus on recurring Clash themes of alienation, monotony and oppression.
Ten years later the Hillsborough Disaster would prove these fences fatal and his concerns irrefutably correct.
The 'King of Early Evening ITV' mentioned in the song is confirmed as Bill Grundy, whose career was ruined after his infamous interview with the Sex Pistols and was indeed presenting early evening television on British terrestrial channel ITV.
"I can remember his first appearance now look what's happened to him, so they put him in a dog suit like from 1964" is about singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.