However, on the similarity between the two songs, Paul said "they're not that alike anyway, simply that there's the big build up and a break in the middle.

His urgent attacking vocal is encased in a scintillating Johnny Arthey scoring that's semi-symphonic in form.

The tempo and mood are constantly changing (making it difficult to dance to), but specially prominent are the catchy hook-line chorus and the powerhouse rhythm with its classical Russian influence.

[5] For Melody Maker, Chris Welch wrote that "this reminds me of a cross between "2001", "Sparticus", Jim Webb and Richard Harris, the Four Tops, the Leningrad Symphony, the Isle of Man T.T.

races, Titov's sensational space voyage in the Russian spacecraft Vodka III [sic] and the conquest of the Old West".