Songfacts®:

• Rod Stewart kicks off his Blood Red Roses album with this offering for the dancefloor. The uptempo pop number is set in a New York nightclub and finds him singing about "Johnny from Brooklyn" meeting "Marion from Queens."
  
  "It starts with a line of people outside the club," the veteran crooner told The Sun. "The girls are all done up and the boys giving it all that. I used to love it."
• The song reflects on a subject that was once close to Stewart's heart: picking up girls (or "pulling birds" in his parlance). The singer is older and wiser now, and rather than reveling in his womanizing, the lyrics serve as a warning to young men who get a few drinks inside them then push it too far. "It's saying come on guys, back off, you don't have to get drunk and throw her over the park bench to try and get your way," he told The Independent.