Ah nuts, wish I’d seen this yesterday. Alchemy popped up on Spotify’s shuffle the other day and I ended up listening to it end-to-end. Still a classic.
I remember spending time with a mate trying to work out all the lyrics and that one defeated us as we’d never heard of the place; “coloured coats in Whitley Bay? What’s he on about?” It was years later when I actually went to Whitley Bay and saw it on the map, I got all excited that I’d finally worked it out, tried to explain to my OH who just looked at me like I was a mentalist.