"[8] While the song was being mixed, Nobby Clark, who served as an engineer for the recording sessions, accidentally deleted the drum tracks by hitting the "record" feature on the mixing console.

Attempts to fully restore the drums were unsuccessful, so Winwood took a Minimoog solo that he had played at the end of the song and repurposed it for the intro.

[8] According to Clark, Winwood determined that the minimoog solo would be a "perfect way to open the song".

It had been a terrible two weeks trying to patch things up and we ended with pure magic.

[9] By 1988, the song had received enough airplay to earn Winwood the Million Play award.