The Peep Show hailed from Birmingham where they were regulars on the gig circuit. In early 1967 they answered an advert in Record Mirror placed by the ex-manager of The Who, Peter Meaden, who promptly signed them to his production company and licenced a number of their tracks to Polydor. The first single "Your Servant Stephen" was a slightly maudlin folky affair which appeared to revolve around the topic of a man writing to the father of his pregnant bride-to-be. The song begins ominously with "Dear Sir, I write to ask you for your daughter's hand in marriage/ I know your first reaction will be of dismay". The frosty reaction this received from Juke Box Jury due to its subject matter was apparently quite marked, with David Jacobs in particular announcing his reservations. Despite this, the song only narrowly missed the Top 40, helped in part by the controversy and also the flip side "Mazy" which is a fantastic, floaty psychedelic number which did well in many of the hippy clubs at the time. The follow-up "Esprit De Corps" received less publicity, although sold in similar borderline quantities. This was a much more introspective ditty about World War II, complete with sinister air raid sirens and a knees-up singalong of "White Cliffs of Dover" towards the fade-out. After this single, Peter Meaden's production company shut up shop, although the band recorded some tracks for a slated album, the demos of which emerged on the "Mazy" compilation which was issued by Tenth Planet in 1999.