Initially, the track was released as the B-side of "Here Come the Nice", the band's eighth official single, and their first on Immediate, whom they signed and transferred to from previous label Decca in 1967.

It is based on a distorted guitar riff played by Marriott and could be classified as hard rock; a genre the band would further experiment with during their later years, most notably on the single "Tin Soldier", and "Song of a Baker", a track from the 1968 album Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake.

The song’s subject matter sounds as if it was inspired by Marriott’s relationship with model, Chrissie Shrimpton.

It should be natural.In the song, the singer wants to talk to his girl but such is her fame he can’t get past the doorman outside her flat who mistakes him for a fan.

Marriott created a contagious groove for these words and then inserted several shouts and chants to lend the song a distinct sexuality.