Written by Rick Parfitt and Andy Bown,[4] it was released on the album of the same name in 1979 and has become one of the band's better-known works.

Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi used chorus, fuzz and flanging effects on their guitars.

This pause creates a short-lived dramatic start to the song, which lasts for a total of four minutes.

[citation needed] In 2013 the band themselves appeared in an Australian television advertisement for Vegemite at the Coles Supermarkets chain, with the song as the backing track, as part of the store's "Down Down" campaign.

[6] The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare).