Who knew Joan Jett’s fist-pumping anthem I Love Rock’n’Roll was a cover version? Not me. And, I’m willing to wager, not most of you.

It was first written and recorded in 1975 by Arrows, an Anglo-American group of Glam latecomers and also-rans. Arrows were made up of American singer-bassist Alan Merrill and guitarist Jake Hooker, and English drummer Paul Varley – all of them now dead..

The long-forgotten band had a solitary top ten hit the previous year with A Touch Too Much, written by hitmakers Chapman and Chinn (and first turned down by The Sweet, Suzi Quatro and David Cassidy).

Their self-penned I Love Rock’n’Roll was produced by Mickie Most at Rak Records. Merrill said he wrote it as “a knee-jerk response” to The Rolling Stones’ song It’s Only Rock’n’Roll (But I Like It).

It was originally released as a B-side and wasn’t a hit but earned them their own weekly ITV show – Arrows – after they performed it on a pop programme called 45.

The song would not be a hit single until it was covered six years later by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, hitting No.1 in America and giving the former Runaway her only UK hit, reaching No.4.