Maria McKee wrote this song when she was a teenager and it became Feargal Sharkey’s only chart-topping single a few years later.

I can still remember the shock – dismay, probably – when Feargal’s solo persona was firmly in the genre of electro-pop. Gone were the crunchy guitars, though John and Damian O’Neil kept that going in This Petrol Emotion.

This was Feargal’s third solo single, produced by Dave Stewart – at the time a superstar with Eurythmics and going by “David A Stewart” – and it is he who plays the searing solo in the middle of the song.

I now learn that A Good Heart, while being easily interpreted as a plea for more compassion in the world that’s as relevant today, is in fact McKee’s account of her teenage relationship with the older (and now dead) Benmont Tench, keyboard player with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – and occasional guest with Lone Justice.

So here’s Feargal, now Britain’s foremost campaigner for clean water, former record company executive, and one-time teenage punk singer.

It needs a trigger warning for anyone (like me) with a strong aversion to peak Eighties-ness.