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‘Sublime and ridiculous’ … Crispian Mills, left, with Alonza Beven, second left, in 1996. Photograph: Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images

Crispian Mills, singer

It’s not our song; it’s as old as the hills. The first time I heard it was in a Krishna temple as a kid. George Harrison was the first person I know of who recorded it – it’s the last track on 1971’s The Radha Krsna Temple album. We were all living together as a band in Swiss Cottage, London, and that record got played all the time. So I had it absorbed.