- Chelsea Girl was issued to promote the band's first UK tour.
- The band weren't enthusiastic about the choice, and had disowned the Life In A Day album by this time.
- The exclusive B-side, Garden Of Hate, was written and recorded especially for this single.
However, the record executives in Australia chose the album track Destiny to back their
their ultra rare pressing.
- Bruce Findlay commissioned local artist Mary Ruth Craig for the artwork.
She was more taken by the Garden Of Hate title, and painted three miserable
clowns surrounded by palms and barbed wire for the sleeve.
- Meanwhile, Jim Kerr spotted a picture of
Jean Shrimpton hanging in the office of Arista lawyer
Robert White. This was ultimately selected for the sleeve, with
Craig's artwork being relegated to the flip.
- John Leckie spent an afternoon at
Utopia Studios attempting to extended the title track for a proposed 12" release.
He abandoned the effort, certain that the track couldn't be lengthened.
- Arista even financed
a video. Using state-of-the-art split screen effects and animation, it must have cost a fortune.
- Bob Geldof stated that if the Boomtown Rats recorded Chelsea Girl,
it would have reached number one.
- It was considered the best song from Life In A Day, released second to be a double-whammy after
the success of the first single. It flopped completely.
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