Anyway, every single year it's, oh, go on, please, we'll double the fee, you'll be the star, look how everyone loved John Sergeant, and every year I say, sorry, you're absolutely asking the wrong guy, no, I don't even dance at weddings yadda yadda yadda.
Anyway, new single "Friend Lover" is a blissfully bruised bit of black and white mope-pop, and we've been listening to it on those long dark nights of the soul when we want to remember what being a teenager felt like all over again.
Anyway, three singles off Tredwell's over, and now Stokes is having a bowl.
The follow-up single, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", by Townshend and Daltrey, features guitar noises such as pick sliding, toggle switching and feedback, which was so unconventional that it was initially rejected by the US arm of Decca.
I'd once read a Pete interview where he said that whenever The Who were suffering through an awful show, they'd play "Daddy Rolling Stone" (the import-only B-side of their second single, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere"... a great, but, to even most Who fans, unknown R&B song).
I've no idea what makes a hit single anyway.
"And they also shouldn't be doing any of those bills anyway, not any single one of them.
It's such a fine line between winning and losing anyway, between a single point and three, or none at all.
"But they either supported the single anyway, or thought: 'Bugger the song, I'll just donate a tenner.' Often that was people we wouldn't usually reach, on Facebook, Twitter or in music magazines".
He signed them anyway, and their single, "Them Girls, Them Girls," sold 500,000 copies.
