By the start of the Seventies, my embryonic musical taste (The Scaffold, Herman’s Hermits, Mary Hopkin) had begun to take a new direction. This was my first single of the new decade.

Edison Lighthouse took Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) to No.1 in January 1970 and stayed there for five weeks, selling 250,000 copies.

As ever, there’s a story behind the band.

Their singer was a session vocalist called Tony Burrows and, incredibly, this was one of four near-concurrent UK Top Ten singles he had in early 1970 – all under different names.

The others were Gimme Dat Ding (The Pipkins), My Baby Loves Lovin’ (White Plains) and United We Stand (Brotherhood of Man)… with apologies for the intro by Savile.

Three years later he was lead vocalist on yet another hit, Beach Baby, by another studio-only group, The First Class.

Burrows had previously sung on the 1967 hit Let’s Go To San Francisco with The Flower Pot Men, a band that also included Jon Lord and Nick Simper, who would soon go on to form Deep Purple.