Anthony Newley

In 1966, Anthony Newley commissioned Delia to write an electronic backing track for which he did a voiceover to create Moogies Bloogies, as well as a second piece I Have Decoded You.

For Delia and Brian, a pivotal moment was working with Anthony Newley, a highly versatile songwriter and stage star who would influence the likes of Syd Barrett and David Bowie. Brian Hodgson recalls: "We did a thing with Tony Newley Moogies Bloogies and he introduced us to David Platz at Essex Music.

and Delia said:

The late Anthony Newley told his label that he wanted to do something electronic. So they got on to me. So I produced this bloopy track and he loved it so much he double-tracked his voice and he used my little tune.

He said to me that the only songs are, "I love you, I love you" or songs saying "You've gone, you've gone."

I'd written this beautiful little innocent tune, all sensitive love and innocence, and he made it into a dirty old raincoat song. But he was really chuffed! Joan and Jackie Collins dropped him off in a limousine at my lovely little flat above a flower shop, and he said "If you can write songs like this, I'll get you out of this place"! It was only a single-track demo tape. So he rang up his record company saying "We want to move to a multi-track studio". Unfortunately the boss of the record company was on holiday, and by the time he returned Anthony Newley had gone to America with Joan Collins.

Presumably it was Delia who gave him Henk Badings' Evolutionen 5, from which he made another piece I Have Decoded You.