Miller AKA Big Boy Pete AKA Pete Miller is probably one of those characters who, despite a long and storied career, is too genuinely wierd to ever become a household word, and this, his first solo single, is an excellent illustration. Shuffled into a set of freakbeat tracks with which it is usually compiled, it almost immediately establishes itself as the work of an odball. That guitar whammo at the top is typical and priceless, but instead of jumping in with the pilled-up-mod-as-soulboy routine, we instead get the chap from the local library earnestly pledging his love, backed by Peter Frampton and the Herd.

I would love to own an original 45 of this. Since they seem to frequently go for 400 GBP, I've had to be content with one of those bootlegs of freakbeat classics that are making the rounds right now. Sound quality is just OK, probably not as good as the version on Searching In the Wilderness comp LP. But as my pal Steve Mitchell says, "You can't beat having stuff on a 45."