“I was with the guys that I made the first album with and we had this idea and this chorus melody and it kind of was pretty repetitive.
“The Richard Brautigan book In Watermelon Sugar was on the table and I was like, ‘That would sound cool!’” Styles laughed.
“It’s probably the longest it’s ever taken me to finish a song,” he continued. “I kind of liked it when we first had it and then I really hated it for a long time.”
But it seems Watermelon Sugar persisted and kept cropping back up in Styles’ mind as he added: “Then it kept coming back into the mix.”
