Chain Gang, a no.9 hit from early the following year, has to be heard to be believed. The backing - caterwauling brass, whipcrack snare, moaning convicts - sounds like it was recorded in a quarry, and Young’s vocal is drenched in reverb. On first listen I assumed it was an Anglo take on the Heartbreak Hotel vocal production. Then I realised, with shock and awe, that Chain Gang predates HH by months.

If this wasn’t enough it trips out at the end into proto-dub, Young’s voice echoing in a void of tape delay and lonesome stand-up bass. One for the RGM Appreciation Society, then, but this would a remarkable production in late 55/early 56 even for Joe Meek.