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Martin Gordon writes:

It was 1977. I was in Riverside Studios in London's Hammersmith secretly replacing all the lead vocals on my band Radio Stars' debut album. I had decided, too late, that the vocalist wasn't up to it and had found a replacement who could have sung Robin Zander's laundry list and made it rock. We'd completed about half the replacement vocals when disaster struck. The management called: "Martin, you've got a hit, they want you on Top of the Pops this week". A disaster because it meant that I would be saddled with the current singer for the foreseeable future. Philosophically, though, I realised that they were right. So it was another four years before Chris Gent and I got together again musically, although I worked him into the Radio Stars live band on sax and backing vocals, and his contributions to the second Radio Stars album were sterling.

I met Chris when Radio Stars acquired the services of Steve Parry, a Canadian drummer living i...