Steve Parkes put his finger on the button - they were Ground-Breakers Ebbie. I recall very clearly their first TV appearance here in the UK (prior to which they were completely unknown outside the Liverpool area and Hamburg) and trust me lass, it was a mind-altering moment! A sound and a look that were light-years away from the kind of stuff we'd been fed for the previous six or seven years, it was far more than a breath of freah air - more like a gale!

And f***kin' hell, they were British!! At last, a raw exciting band to compete with the overproduced, slushy, bathed-in-echo dross we'd had for so long. It wasn't anything to do with their writing initially, that came later - it was just the raw, earthy, vibrant sound and the unique 'look' that we all went for.

The day 'She Loves You' was released I bought the record, and my band and I learned it that evening and played it at the gig we did the next night - I can't remember how many times we played it by request, but it was getting into double figures.

I was 16. You had to be there.

SJ :0)