vocal, so we would often write a song around a bass line, like on 'Interesting Drug. Per Street, Rourke "did his own version of it" nonetheless. Gannon later pointed to the song as one of his best performances on any Morrissey or Smiths-related tracks. Release Street initially sought to halt the release of "Interesting Drug" as leverage to address a dispute over production royalties from Viva Hate. Street explained, "My lawyer told me that the only way I could sort out my production royalty situation was to get an injunction that would delay the release of the 'Interesting Drug' single, which I'd worked on, after Viva Hate. That did happen, but I thought it was making me look so bad that I relented and let them release the single. In the end it did get sorted out and I was given two-and-a-half points. I think my legal action left a bad taste with Morrissey. I remember the final postcard I got from him. It just said, 'Enough is too much' (laughs)." "Interesting Drug" reached number nine in the UK, becoming Morrissey's last top-10 single until 1994. The song was not featured on one of Morrissey's main studio albums but can be found on the compilation album Bona Drag along with the B-side "Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference". The artwork for the single features Morrissey photographed by Lawrence Watson. Morrissey originally planned for "At Amber" to appear as the song's B-side, but it was instead shelved until it appeared as the B-side on the "Piccadilly Palare" single. Music video Like previous videos for Morrissey and the Smiths, the "Interesting Drug" video was directed by Tim Broad. The video features a group of high heel-wearing, NME-reading schoolboys who join together with an older woman cyclist played by Diane Alton. At the end of the video, Morrissey appears to give the group animal rights literature, prompting them to break into a facility to free lab rabbits. This main story is interspersed with clips of Morrissey and his backing band performing the song. Among other things, the video features a cameo of a copy of Moby Dick as well as a reference to Morrissey favorite Charles Hawtrey in the fictional Hawtrey high school the boys attended. The words "Bad people on the right" were written on a wall during one scene, which Morrissey said "would apply to the Conservative government."