In the vein of Dr. Hook's "The Cover of "Rolling Stone", this song is a sendup of the rock star lifestyle, performed by a group of rock stars who see the humor. 10cc was in a position to be objective, as they stayed away from headline-grabbing debauchery. All four members worked behind the scenes in their pre-10cc days, doing session work, songwriting a production for other artists. This gave them plenty of perspective when they had their star turn.
The title is a play on something their label boss, Jonathan King, told them when he assigned them the name 10cc. King said he had a dream where he was standing outside of the Hammersmith Odeon in London, and a sign said: "10cc, The Best Band In The World." The band accepted the name (which was often rumored, falsely, to refer to a volume of male ejaculate) but rejected the grandiose vision. In a Songfacts interview with Graham Gouldman of 10cc, he said: "Really, it's a play on that: the fact that we're the worst band in the world and we don't care, we just do what we want to do."
This was the only 10cc song Graham Gouldman and Lol Creme wrote together. Gouldman usually wrote with Eric Stewart; Creme with Kevin Godley. Creme sang lead on this one.
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