Who remembers what turned them on to rock 'n' moment, what record—stranger Still Why? Admitted I have friends who can reel off the first six singles they ever bought (and some of them have to think 20 years back), but why we went on to ghettoize ourselves as Presley fans, or British beat maniacs, or—like me—arrogant soul fanatics, is harder to recall. Easier are the moments when music was reaffirmed to us.

For me it was the time in the late 60’s when the Four Tops played the Albert Hall and it was hard to draw breath for the whiplash emotional response to “Bernadette,” '‘Seven Rooms Of Gloom” and the ubiquitous “Reach Out.”