Our second single was released on Friday 25th April 1975 and was called "Here I Go Again",it was a slow slushy song that featured Dominic and Thereze taking the lead. It wasn't a strong song and only reached 29 in the charts and featured (for me) one of the most embarrassing routines that we ever performed on "Top Of The Pops", I still have the video which always amuses my children. Our next single, our third to be written by Ammo was called "Lets all Get Together" which was awful and failed to chart at all.

Ammo recruited a day to day manager for us, his name was Brian Longley who had years of experience in the business, where as Ammo were primarily song writers and record producers and confessed themselves that Management was not their thing. We spent the remainder of 1975 doing lots live shows and TV appearances both here and abroad, and trying to find another hit record.

Brian Longley came up with the idea of recording "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" which had been a number one hit for Dusty Springfield in 1966 and a Number nine for Elvis in 1970. We recorded the song and we were very pleased with it, but as always with a new single we had to get the approval of Magnet boss Michael Levy. The routine was that we would go into his office play the record and he would usually bang on the table a shout "It's a F-----g smash. With this one he said he wasn't sure and he wanted to take it home and ponder over it. The following day he phoned to say that his wife didn't like the drum sound (his wife!!!!!?) Ammo were annoyed as they thought the record was great and so did we. They did nothing for a few days and then we took the same version of the record back to Michael Levy and said "We've remixed it and it sounds much better now Michael" and he listened to it and screamed "It"s a F-----g smash". It was, it was released in January 1976 and peaked at No.5 in the chart.

We performed several shows for royalty, and one of the strangest was at Westminster Cathedral performing with Alvin Stardust in front of The Duke of Edinburgh. It was a charity event and we had to perform in front of an audience that consisted of a quite a few clergymen. I told the group a joke? and they dared me to say it on stage so I did. I said " It"s very nice for me to be performing in this cathedral as my father used to be in the church, he was a cannon but they fired him." There was a deathly hush and the only one with a smile on his face was The Duke of Edinburgh. We were introduced to The Duke after the show and he told me that after we had left the stage a clergyman announced that he was a cannon so perhaps he should be fired, and the place errupted in laughter. Perhaps it was the way he told it.

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1975 - 1976. From "Here I Go Again" to Freddie Starr.