I’m only now discovering that Heart Full Of Soul, released 60 yeasrs ago when I was seven years old, was written by Graham Gouldman of 10cc.

Remarkably, in a two-year spell from 1965, Gouldman wrote two more of their singles, For Your Love and Evil Hearted You, as well as hits for The Hollies (Bus Stop, Look Through Any Window), Herman’s Hermits (No Milk Today, Listen People), Wayne Fontana and Jeff Beck.

Beck made his debut on this Yardbirds song, their first after replacing Eric Clapton, though it was apparently first recorded with an Indian sitar player.

Dissatisfied with the results, Beck adapted the melody to his guitar, distorting it with a fuzz box borrowed from Jimmy Page, who was in an adjacent studio at the time.

Heart Full of Soul was one of the first significant uses of fuzz guitar on record – a month before the Stones recorded (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – and the inspiration for the sitar first used by The Beatles a few months later on Norwegian Wood.

Some later live recordings of Heart Full Of Soul feature Page, who liked the sitar sound so much that he bought the Indian musician’s instrument off him before taking over from Beck as the band’s guitarist.

The Beck version was released in June 1965 as the Yardbirds’ first single since Clapton’s departure, and reached No.2 in the UK singles chart.