Everybody knows the Jackson brothers but not so many know their near-namesakes, the Brothers Johnson.

Siblings George (guitar) and Louis (bass) started out as a trio with a third brother, Tommy (and cousin Alex) at school in LA, under the name Johnson Three Plus One.

After school they worked as a backing band for big soul stars like The Supremes and Bobby Womack, before George and Louis joined Billy Preston’s band, going on to play on Quincy Jones’s album Mellow Madness and tour Japan with him – and produce his next album.

Under their own name, they had big hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s with Stomp!, I’ll Be Good To You (featuring Syreeta) and Strawberry Letter 23 – later to feature in Jackie Brown – but this is their funkiest number, featuring George’s “lightnin’ licks” and the “thunder thumbs” of Louis’s slippery bass.

They always looked great live, with left-handed George and right-handed Louis forming a symmetrical mirror image onstage. After launching separate careers in the 1980s, Louis played bass on Jacko’s Thriller album; he died in 2015 at the age of only 50 in his home in Las Vegas.