"Toast" is a song by Streetband, known for their lead singer Paul Young, released as a single from their debut album London in October 1978.

[2][3] Helped by the airplay, the song became successful, peaking at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart in November.

[4] The release coincided with the 1978 bakers' strike (during the Winter of Discontent), which saw people queuing for bread,[5] and this led to increased radio airplay of the song.

When the rhythm player bust a string, he went off to do it himself (at the John Bull pub in Chiswick) and the rest of the band started busking on 'Lover', the jazz standard that I’d heard by Tony Bennett.

So I wouldn’t be standing there like a plonker, I started scatting over the rhythm and arrived at the word ‘toast’ at the end of the chord sequence.