Laine wrote the song in 1967 after he had quit the Moody Blues and was forming the Electric String Band.
He recorded the song as his debut solo single, with a string arrangement by John Paul Jones, but it failed to chart.
[1] Episode Six (featuring future Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover) recorded the song at a BBC session in January 1968, with keyboardist Sheila Carter singing lead.
[3] The song was revisited by former Zombies frontman Colin Blunstone in 1971 as the closing track on his first solo album, One Year.
[4][5] In 2006, Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys said, "It's a very energetic song but it's driven by the strings and that's unusual in pop.