I was just a tad too young … it would be five years before I came back to this song and its subject … the month this was recorded (released on the album months later in July), I was just coming out of, recovering from, my first full-on love affair … I was just a tad too young for any of it.

Was watching a reaction video to this clip and the guy thought it was something to do with a Lear jet I suppose, going for trips around the bay. Wonder in which year people would no longer insta-recognise Timothy Leary, what he was about, how he tried to ruin the youth of the day.

Yet it all seemed so innocuous at the time. Even the notion of searching for some lost chord … there’s no lost chord, it’s right there and gives a far better high … but the PTB made us feel our culture was not sufficient, our values not sufficient. Right through the album, they search high and low … in the end trying eastern mysticism … anything to prevent youth finding the chord.

Not unlike Peer Gynt, not unlike the young man searching for the four leaf clover all around the world, only to find it growing at his doorstep once he finally returned, not unlike Wreckless Eric who would go the whole wide world, not unlike Graham Parker searching for that fool’s gold … the motif is ancient and ubiquitous.