Open Up (Radio Edit)

Leftfield is a British electronic music group formed in 1989 by Neil Barnes and Paul Daley. They were notable for their use of guest vocalists not associated with dance music and this song featured the voice of former Sex Pistol John Lydon.

One of Barnes's friends was also a pal of Lydon and he first met the Public Image singer as a 19-year-old, when he spent a weekend at the rockers' Ladbroke Grove home listening to his reggae collection. Once he formed Leftfield with Paul Daley, Barnes was keeping his eye open for something suitable that would be suitable for Lydon to sing on. "We had to do something that warranted getting John in," he recalled to Uncut. "We were terrified that we'd do something second-rate. We worked on the bassline until we got it right, spinning in records endlessly, trying different breaks to get the right feel for it, changing the hi-hat rhythm 100 times, different bass drums... We'd push things sonically as far as we could."

John Lydon recalled to Uncut: "They bought me over to the studio one night, and I am more or less just free-formed it. I've been running the ideas for my mind almost constantly. So it was all just waiting for the pen to hit the page."