The Shamen 'Es are good' rapper on full meaning of 'p*sstake' drug song that conned BBC

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BBC bosses and the world over the lyrics - which promoted rave drug ecstasy to millions of viewers and listeners.BBC bosses initially barred the legendary 90s tune as the line 'he’s a good, he’s Ebeneezer Goode' sounded almost exactly like 'Es are good' - a reference to the illegal pills.Read more: Louise Redknapp moves on from divorce with Jamie and is 'dating again'However the furore over the drug references - and the fact it was a brilliantly catchy anthem saw it go Number One - and stay there for FOUR weeks so it was repeatedly performed in front of the Top of The Pops young TV audience.But the 1992 hit song may never have come about if Mr C's bandmate and songwriter Colin Angus had not had a chance encounter with an unknown reveller in a Kentish Town club in north London.Speaking exclusively to The Daily Star, Mr C said:"This guy's come up and put his hands on Colin's shoulders, he’s going ‘Es are good, Es are good’.

Colins like ‘ok’".When Colin returned backstage, he recited the words which had sparked a song idea, to Mr C who simply replied “yes I know, yes I know.”Within minutes, an inspired Colin then told Mr C about the mischievous plan to write a song about the Class A drug.He continued: “He (Colin) says they’re going to be two songs running parallel like on a train track as one song, I’m still like what do you mean?

He’s like look, you know how you Londoners drop your H so what you do is, you perform the song without an H on the word ‘he’ and I’m like ‘ok’ then it becomes two songs.“If you listen to the song with the H, it’s about this guy called Ebeneezer Goode, he was a character we actually managed to make up from nine different people.“So one song was about this guy, this fictional guy called Ebeneezer.