The background music at breakfast is "Moonlight Bay".
Howard quotes Autumn Leaves at the end of Don't Eat There (2:21-2:26), with the last note extending into the first second of Brixton Still Life.
It's much easier to identify the quotation on the audience recording of 12/10/71 London.
right here at the Rainbow Theatre where Melanie ripped it up last night
Melanie [Safka] had played a sold-out concert at the Rainbow the previous night. Her "Brand New Key" reached #1 in the Billboard chart later that month.
Jeff: Smurf mee!
Howard: Smurf meee!
When we went to Holland for the first time with the band with Mark and Howard in '70 or '71, the whole place was riddled with fuckin' Smurfs advertising BP. And the joke in the band was "Smurf mee," because on the billboards that's what they said. "Smurf me" spelled "me-e-e." I don't know what it means.
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