Rattus Norvegicus (album)
It was one of the highest-selling albums of the punk era in Britain, eventually achieving platinum record sales.The first 10,000 copies of the original vinyl release included a free 7-inch single, containing "Peasant in the Big Shitty" (live) and "Choosey Susie".[6] The album launch party was held in the Water Rat pub on the King's Road in World's End, Chelsea.It features Eric Clarke, a Welsh coal miner friend of manager Dai Davies, on saxophone.[16] The song references an episode of the 1975 post-apocalyptic BBC TV drama Survivors titled "Lights of London", where the protagonists leave the safety of a farming community to head for the city, which they find can only be entered through a rat-infested sewer.