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== Background == The album's title may be a reference to the 1987 film ''[[Withnail and I]]''. [[Vauxhall]] is an area of [[London]] noted for its [[gay club]]s, and there is also a [[Vauxhall Motors|British car manufacturer of the same name]]. "Spring Heeled Jim" contains bits of dialogue from ''[[We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)#We Are the Lambeth Boys .281959.29|We Are the Lambeth Boys]]'', a 1959 documentary that follows the lives of members of a south London youth club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/faq/faqlyric.htm |title=The Smiths / Morrissey FAQ: Lyrics |website=compsoc.man.ac.uk |access-date=5 December 2014}}</ref> The line "Don't leave us in the dark" at the end of "Billy Budd" is sampled from the 1948 [[David Lean]] film adaptation of Dickens' ''[[Oliver Twist]]''. This was said by one of [[Fagin]]'s pickpockets to Fagin when the mob was closing in on their hiding place. The song itself shares the title with [[Billy Budd|a novella]] by [[Herman Melville]].
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