"Peaches" is a song and single by The Stranglers. It was one of the big summer hits of 1977, a close rival to The Sex Pistols' "God Save The Queen" in terms of notoriety.

While "God Save the Queen" was notorious for its political sentiment, "Peaches" was controversial because of its sexual content: the song's narrator is girl-watching on a crowded beach one hot summer day. It's never made clear if his lascivious thoughts (such as "there goes a girl and a half") are an interior monologue, comments to his mates, or come-on lines to the attractive women in question. Critic Tom Maginnis writes that Hugh Cornwell sings with "a lecherous sneer, the sexual tension is so unrelenting as to spill into macho parody or even censor batingterritory."[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:86dsa9tge230

The lyrics of the song include the word clitoris (albeit pronounced in a non-standard way tar-is"," target="_blank" >prounounced like "guitarist"). Because of the sexual nature of the lyrics, the B-side "Go Buddy Go" was the song played on UK radio at the time. It reached #8 in the UK singles chart and the radio cut had to be rerecorded with less explicit lyrics.

The Stranglers songs | 1977 singles | Singles banned by the BBC