How Does It Feel (Slade song) following month. It reached No. 15, which was the band's first single not to reach the UK Top 5 since their 1971 breakthrough with "Get Down and Get with It". The melody of "How Does It Feel" was the first Lea had ever written, while he was still in school. He came up with the idea on an old piano which he later described as having half the keys missing. Although the tune never developed any further at that time, Lea later revisited it for use as the theme tune for "Flame". Holder wrote the song's lyrics and it became
How It Is the world as mud ("E fango è il mondo") and therefore, a kind of purgatory, as well as Dante's image of souls gulping mud in the Stygian marsh of the "Inferno" (Canto VII, 109–126, in Palma's translation): Dante's Belacqua and his foetal position also are referenced in "How It Is" and the following quotation is an example of the work's unpunctuated, dense, and poetic style: The novel served as inspiration for Miroslaw Balka's 2009 work, "How It Is", in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. How It Is How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett first published in French as