If you’d asked me what I thought about Demis Roussos, this would not spring to mind. I would not have answered with a king of disco. 

I would have recalled a nightmarish vision of a huge bearded Greek in a vast white kaftan singing a terrible ballad that goes on for ever and ever and ever and ever.

What did I know?

This is a fabulous slice of disco from a time when I was listening to the Pistols and the Clash and the Ramones back in 1977. So I’ve never heard it before. 

Another reason is because it was hidden away on the B-side to another big ballad called Because, which is just like For Ever, that one that still haunts many musical nightmares.

I’d never heard it til it was included in a new compilation by Steve Mason, once of the Beta Band, called The Romance Of Unknowing.

As the title suggests, it’s a collection of lesser-known tunes, in tribute to a club in Dunfermline called The Kronk, where the DJ, an old Mod called Lel Palfrey, used to spin tunes ranging from hip-hop and house to reggae and all points in between.

It’s fantastic, especially in this Todd Terje mix.