We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

I had never seen anything like it. It was dark, it was full of American GI's and it was kind of threatening in a way.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.