Nick's face didn't stop him pulling Carlene Carter."
Indeed. BS were one of the few bands to bridge album rock/prog rock and Top of the Pops glitz. Today intelligent songwriting is everywhere but it's hard to imagine how thin on the ground it was then, leading to journalists who could remember the sixties seeing great white hope everywhere. That isn't to say Brinsley Schwarz and Graham Parker weren't rather good but many of us were waiting for punk to wash the pop polemic beach completely.