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According to Alan Price, Lindsay Anderson had been frustrated in his efforts to make a documentary featuring Price and his band about touring in England because of the prohibitive cost to license the cover songs they frequently performed.

As David Sherwin and Malcolm McDowell developed the script, Anderson decided Price should write the score and sent him the script, indicating where he would like songs to appear ; nearly all the songs were written in advance of filming.

Anderson conceived of Price's role as a kind of Greek Chorus, both commenting on and finally appearing as part of the action.