B-side
The B-side was "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards", written by Dury and Russell Hardy, his co-writer from his time in the pub-rock band Kilburn & The Highroads.
An amusing song affectionately describing the achievements of Noël Coward, Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein in a working class (specifically Cockney) manner and amusingly dismissing Leonardo da Vinci as an 'Italian geezer' in Van Gogh's verse.
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