Cash Box said it has "an alluring beauty", with "spunky piano chording, rhythm ace backing, evocative synthesizer explorations and chimes".

[3] Record World said it would surprise his fans as "an instrumental with traditional orchestral arrangements and John's own semi-classical piano work".

[8] The song was used extensively throughout all 6 episodes of the 1985 BBC comedy series Happy Families (the lead male character is named Guy).

It is also used in the seventh episode of Diamonds in the Sky (1979), a BBC–Channel 9 Perth co-production about the history of commercial aviation, and is played frequently in the 1980 movie Oh Heavenly Dog starring Chevy Chase and Jane Seymour and directed by Rod Browning.

[10] In November 2020, the track was featured in The Crown, during a scene in which Lady Diana Spencer dances alone in a Buckingham Palace ballroom.