[1] The album version of "I'm Mandy Fly Me" features an intro in the form of one of the bridge sections of the band's 1974 song "Clockwork Creep".
The section, whose lyrics are "Oh, no you'll never get me up in one of these again / 'Cause what goes up must come down", is rendered soft and tinny, as if heard playing from a portable transistor radio or an in-flight audio system.
[2] In a radio interview,[3] songwriter Eric Stewart recalled the origins of the song: National Airlines used to have this beautiful poster that they displayed of this gorgeous stewardess inviting you onto the plane.
So we changed the rhythm completely, and we put two whacking great guitar solos in there, in the middle of this quiet, soft, floaty song.
Again, impossible to dance to, as a lot of 10cc tracks were, but once Kevin had put that in, he became the third writer in the song so we were quite democratic in that way.Record World said that it has "shifting harmonies and twisting time signatures.