75. ‘Peter Panic’

B-side of ‘Girls And Boys’, second of two-part CD. Produced by Stephen Street.

Essentially a Euro-disco companion to ‘Girls And Boys’, ‘People In Europe’ consists of random foreign phrases brainstormed by the whole band. Graham suggests that the verses might have been inspired by Peter Hammill of Van Der Graaf Generator, whose harsh, grating music Graham considers partly to blame for his getting ulcers in his late teens. ‘People In Europe’ was never a possibility for ‘Parklife’.