"[6] Sharp had written the lyrics to the melody of Leonard Cohen's song "Suzanne", specifically the Judy Collins version.

[7] In an interview at the time of the song's release, Clapton revealed that the Greek mythos-inspired subject matter stemmed from Sharp's love of the Mediterranean islands and that he had written it the previous winter, wishing he were out in the sun.

[8] In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton recalls: When [first meeting Sharp] he heard that I was a musician, he told me he had written a poem that he thought would make good lyrics for a song.

As it happens, I had in my mind at that moment an idea inspired by a favorite song of mine by the Lovin' Spoonful called "Summer in the City," so I asked him to show me the words.

"[10] Derek Johnson at New Musical Express opined "a complex enigmatic lyric combined with a pounding whalloping beat.

[11] Retrospectively, AllMusic's Matthew Greenwald calls it, "One of a few overtly psychedelic songs to have aged gracefully ... Lyrically, it's a relatively factual and colorful rendering of the great Greek tragedy Ulysses".