He was introducing Barry Ryan’s 1968 hit “Eloise,” so explosive an orchestral pop record it threatened to obliterate any record player on which it was played. The Damned duly recorded their own ...
“On the other side,” continued Hibbert. “Fudge unleash on the unwary listener their vision of the ‘now generation,’ in the form of a dull reworking of Sonny Bono’s ‘The Beat Goes on.’ This was the ...