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“Cherry Blossom Clinic” is a song by British rock band The Move. The song tells the story of a man slipping into madness and what he imagines as he hallucinates in his clinic room. The song features a string and brass arrangement by Tony Visconti. Keeping with the theme of madness, a line in the song about a “teatray in the sky” is a reference from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Although scheduled as the next single after the top 10 hit “Flowers in the Rain”, the release was cancelled in the wake of a scandal surrounding a promotional stunt postcard sent out for “Flowers in the Rain”. “Cherry Blossom Clinic” was included on The Move’s first album, but its b-side “Vote for Me” was not released until 1998. The song was later revisited and re-recorded by... Read on...