Here’s a sweet slice of Sixties psychedelia by a bunch of British teenagers, released in February 1968 to a chorus of indifference. Who would have expected it to launch a multi-million-selling band on a stellar career?

It’s a (deliberate) pastiche of the Bee Gees, and it failed to capture anyone’s imagination, despite being very much of its time, and despite being produced by Jonathan King – fresh from flying high (to the moon, in fact) in the charts as a solo artist – with a lavish orchestration by Arthur Greenslade.

Personally, I prefer the B-side, That’s Me, with its nice little guitar solo – though I prefer both to the embryonic band’s later gazillion-selling repertoire.

King was an old boy of Charterhouse, the posh public school where the band in question were still pupils aged 17 at the time of recording, having merged the two school bands – Anon and Garden Wall – into a new one.

According to King, their debut album, From Genesis To Revelation, had sold just 649 copies after more than a year on the shelves. And that might have been that for Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Ant Phillips, Chris Stewart and his replacement John Silver.

It would have been had the group not reconvened a year later – two of them now at university, and two more fresh from finishing their A-levels – to discuss whether to continue.

They recorded a demo of new songs that was rejected by every label they sent it to, but decided to carry on, working on new songs and devising a stage performance that earned them a residency at Ronnie Scott’s, where they were eventually spotted – after being rejected by Island and Chrysalis – and signed to Charisma Records.

And the rest is history, though that first album never really caught on. Re-released multiple times by King, who shrewdly kept the rights, it peaked five years later at the heady heights of No.170 in America.