Writes the loyal 5FF reader who sent in this video.
Mick is smiling because he gets to wear track pants without getting yelled at.
Actually, I hear a lot of “Joe” in those lyrics, although he’d have made them way more florid:
(He usually wrote about “England,” too, not “Britain.”)
“That’s it. We’re not gonna be The Gentlemen anymore…” — I couldn’t do something like this without laughing: