The song's artist, Sick Dik and the Volkswagens, evokes the names of such historical rock groups as the El Dorados, the Edsels, the Cadillacs and the Jaguars ( as well as an early name the Beatles themselves used, " Long John and the Silver Beetles " ) . " Sick Dik " may also refer to Richard Wharfinger, author of " that ill, ill Saint Narcissus, a 3rd-century bishop of Jerusalem.
