Perhaps it's a case of the green-eyed monster, here in the West Country at that time apart from the Troggs (of crop circle fame)it wasn't really happening here, in Bristol anyway, my older cousins told about the jazz clubs and coffee bars in Bristol but nothing as far as I am aware that successfully topped the charts.

London and the Northern cities could just have well been as far away as the USA to us. Our neighbours in Wales produced Tom Jones but unfortunately he didn't really do it for the pre-teens and teenage girls of that time who regarded as him being mainly for the 40 something housewives right until the 80's, infact until he started to collaborate with some of the modern bands of now from the 90's onwards I hadn't really taken very much notice of him until then. If we had been lucky enough to produced something for the city like the Beatles it might have been a different story.