Paul Weller has admitted that he borrowed the descending guitar intro of ELO's "10538 Overture" for this song.
Despite being a high-profile supporter of Red Wedge, a collection of Labor-supporting Rock musicians who toured Britain in a bus during the 1983 and 1987 general elections, Paul Weller later became disillusioned with the party. In 1997 he refused to let Labor use this song as a theme alongside their 1997 electoral anthem, "Things Are Gonna Get Better."
The album title is named after the street in Woking where Weller lived in the 1960s with his parents and sister Nicky.
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