#This is the story of my life song green day code#

We know it wasn't always a storage space from the lyric: 'There's an old piano and they play it hot behind the green door/ Don't know what they're doing but they laugh a lot behind the green door/ Wish they'd let me in so I could find out what's behind the green door.' Even the code hidden in the lyrics - 'Joe sent me', referring to Joe Meek, the gay record producer who oversaw Vaughan's version of the song - doesn't provide much help.

So why did so many people feel the need to ask? If you take a look behind it now, you'll find it's a storage space for a nearby dress shop. The green door actually exists, it's on Bramerton Street, just off the King's Road in west London. One might have hoped the Cramps, famed for prurience and sleaze, might provide some answers when they covered it in 1981, but the green door wasn't giving up its secret easily. Jim Lowe also had a No 1 hit with the song in the US back in 1956, while in Britain Frankie Vaughan took it to No 2. 'Green door, what's that secret you're keeping?' asked Shakin' Stevens for four weeks on Top of the Pops in 1981. In his compilation of gay pop anthems, From the Closet to the Charts: Queer Noises 1961-1978, Jon Savage missed a trick: he never told us what was going on behind The Green Door.