One-time Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr not only plays the guitar on this track, but also the harmonica. Marr and Neil Tennant (for a short while) were both members of the super group Electronic who had an international hit in 1989 with "Getting Away With It."
Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett contributed the orchestral arrangement to this track, which features the London Metropolitan Orchestra.
The song was originally written for a television series called Beautiful People. This version sounded more "folky," but producers Xenomania subsequently put a 60s beat on it. Tennant recalled to The Big Issue: "Our friend, playwright Jonathan Harvey, said he was doing a new TV series, a comedy series called Beautiful People, and would we consider writing a song for it. So we started writing a song with that title and it came together very quickly."
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