The Snuff Rock EP was such an accurate punk parody that you’d be forgiven for taking it as a prime example of first-wave punk. Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoisas were a satirical rock band – a real-life Spinal Tap – and enjoyed their biggest success in 1977, when this was released on Stiff.

The opening track Kill even begins with an upper-class-twit voice inquiring: “Is she really going out with HIM?” followed by the opening drum rolls of New Rose (the first UK punk single by The Damned, coincidentally also released on Stiff).

The snarling, sneering Cockney vocals and nihilistic lyrics, the clattering drums and the deadpan one-note guitar solo (emulating Pete Shelley’s two-note solo on Boredom) are all perfectly on point.

The second song, Gobbin’ On You, is directly aimed at the Pistols, and the third, Snuffin’ Like That, sends up The Clash and their revolutionary fervour. The less said about the final reggae spoof, Snuffin’ Ina Babylon, with its cod-Jamaican accent, the better.

Despite the Mockney accent, Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias came from Manchester, where they were created back in 1972 by CP Lee (author, broadcaster, lecturer) and Jimmy Hibbert (actor, author, animator).

Long before punk the Albertos were regulars at The Roundhouse, supporting Hawkwind as far back as 1974, their repertoire mercilessly mocking musicians like Lou Reed and the Velvets (Anadin) and Pink Floyd (Mandrax Variations Parts I, II and III).

By 1977 they were a headline act, with many of the emerging punk bands opening for them – hence the accuracy of their subsequent parodies, which they gathered in a conceptual show about a singer who eventually kills himself onstage as the ultimate act of rock theatre.

They performed their Snuff Rock revue at the Royal Court Theatre and The Roundhouse. In 1980 they even made the charts with a send-up of Status Quo, accurately entitled Heads Down No-Nonsense Mindless Boogie.