In 1966, the lead singer of The Lovin’ Spoonful, reported that when summer hit the city, the back of his neck would get ‘dirty and gritty’. All around him, he said, people were not only ‘half-dead’ but also ‘hotter than a match-head’.
Yes, when it’s in summer in the city, the thinking goes, temperatures rise, car horns blare, fuses shorten, heads get hot, we start fuming and bubbling and we might even boil over.
The Spoonful’s songwriter Mark
