Bachelor Boy is a horrible song, both musically and lyrically. We all know that in less enlightened times, people enjoyed sniggering at the lyrics: "I bet you'll always be a bachelor boy, Cliff, you big old WOOFTER!" That joke is more boring than the song itself, and anyone who ever cracked it was, and doubtless still is, a twat.
The problem with Bachelor Boy is that it's a unctuous piece of ghastly, ingratiating MOR pap - anodyne bierkeller music - in which the protagonist and his father come across as freewheeling sociopaths. There's nothing wrong with remaining single all your life if that's what you want - live how you wanna live, brothers and sisters - but the relentlessly cheerful mood of the song leaves a weird taste in the mouth.*
Still, at least it inspired the title of that ace Young Ones spin-off book, right kids?
* I BET IT DOES CLIFF YOU DIRTY OLD ETC.