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My White Bicycle

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B-side
  
"Claramount Lake"

Format
  
7" single

Length
  
3:17

Released
  
May 1967

Label
  
Parlophone

"My White Bicycle" is Tomorrow's debut single.

According to Tomorrow drummer John 'Twink' Alder, the song was inspired by the Dutch Provos, an anarchist group in Amsterdam which instituted a community bicycle program: "they had white bicycles in Amsterdam and they used to leave them around the town. And if you were going somewhere and you needed to use a bike, you'd just take the bike and you'd go somewhere and just leave it. Whoever needed the bikes would take them and leave them when they were done."

The Scottish rock band Nazareth did a cover version, which reached 14 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975, staying for eight weeks. Actor Nigel Planer, as his character 'Neil the Hippy' from TV-series The Young Ones, reached #97 with his cover in 1984.

References

My White Bicycle Wikipedia


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