Here is Jay Ferguson with his US hit Thunder Island, built around a riff that will be familiar to Rolling Stones fans.

I’ve never heard this deep cut from 1977 before but I know a guy who has…

Keith Richards came up with the riff back in 1975 when he matched it to a reggae rhythm, calling the nascent tune Never Stop.

Two years later the Stones recorded it for Some Girls but after listening to a playback Keith realised it sounded like a song he’d heard on the radio, so the band dropped it.

But a good riff never dies, and The Stones returned to it in 1979 while recording Emotional Rescue, but once again it failed to make the cut for the album.

That should surely have been that. But in 1981 their engineer Chris Kimsey dug it out while searching the vaults for old songs to include on Tattoo You, an album of out-takes from the 1970s.

He chose one of two “rock” versions lurking among 40 reggae adaptations and the band updated it, with Jagger recording his vocals in the bathroom for natural reverb… and changing the lyric from “Start It up” to “Start *Me* Up.”

The rest, as anyone who has seen the Stones in recent times will attest, is concert history – the band begin every show with the song.