My mates and I never really bought into The Vibrators as a bona-fide punk band.

They were at least a decade older than most of their contemporaries and Knox, their singer, had been playing in bands even longer than that.

To us they were shameless arrivistes – posers, in the dismissive jargon of the time – and “old farts” who had jumped on the punk bandwagon by cutting their hair, buying leather jackets and sticking a few badges on them.

And they were.

But they were also on the bill at the 100 Club’s legendary punk festival – backing the equally antiquated Chris Spedding – and the second UK punk group to release a single (We Vibrate) in November 1976

They followed it with this – the first punk ballad.

It didn’t do much to reinforce their punk credentials, which I was able to scrutinise at close quarters when they came to play in Harlow where I was at college, supported by local heroes The Sods.

But it’s a tuneful affair, with a nice melody and a nice guitar solo – both things that were pretty much anathema for a punk group at the time.