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Well done sir, here is the Monkees cover, spot the members of the backing band! Apparently a Suit at the BBC didn't want him to perform in a Wheelchair as it wasn't what people wanted on the BBC at 7.30. Robert told them to fvck off - good man! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ivg0cDBgo

Still no guesses about the Tea Machine just along the corridor? Clues: he appeared live on Top of the Pops to perform a Monkees Cover in the 1970's but probably best known to the younger NSCer collective for an Elvis Costello cover from the 1980's. Absolute Marmite vocal style, I love him...

First Sabbath Album was 1970 so a bit late on the scene, as you say who really cares? By the way the Pink Fairies were probably the link between heavy metal and punk - Up the Pinks!

First Heavy Metal Band - photo finish between Jimi Hendrix Experience & Cream in 1967? First Punk Band - the MC5? And which genre does the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band come into? Any excuse to post a track with Sir Kenneth Clarke and General de Gaulle on it... :thumbsup...

All have our favourite 'Head songs, mine is Keep Us on the Road, always the finale at Witton Albion* Social Club Bikers night... * Witton Albion were my Dad's Team, still in existence but Central Ground including Social Club now a Sainsbury's, progress eh? No takers on my Tea Machine lyric...

'There are Dance Halls and Theatres with Acoustics worse than Here, not forgetting the extra Facilities, such as the Tea Machine, just along the corridor. So to all our mates like Kevin*, Caravan and the old Pink Floyd, allow me to recommend Top Gear, despite its extraordinary name...' *Kevin...