While seventies fashion may well be something we’d prefer to forget, music from decade is a different matter altogether. Although derided by some as a decade of cheesy tunes and here-today-gone-tomorrow pop stars, look more closely and there’s plenty to be proud of.

Think for a moment what’s gone missing from our High Streets in recent years.

Kiki Dee isn’t the only British artist to be signed to Detroit’s Motown Records Company, but I’ll bet you hers is the only name you’d recognise if you saw of list of British signees.

Johnny Mathis once said “Nat King Cole was the God of popular music in our house”…

It’s often said that music changed when The Beatles issued their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, but they’d changed the scene long before that.

Before The Beatles made their first record for Parlophone Records they’d already made several recordings for the German Polydor label and the man who had first taken them into a recording studio was pianist, orchestra leader, arranger, composer and producer Bert Kaempfert.