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Marr composed the music then Sumner wrote the lyric as engineer Owen Morris played him the song every four bars. Marr was reluctant to layer multiple guitar parts as he was wary of treading ground, but Sumner convinced him otherwise.

During recording, Primal Scream backing singer Denise Johnson added a vocal at the end of the song. She went on to provide additional vocals on a number of songs on Electronics second album Raise the Pressure five years later.