Welch was looking for songs to revitalise Cliff Richard’s flagging career. Back home he flicked over one of the cassette tapes and played a song he hadn’t heard in the Island office.

“Well, you know if someone asked me if I could advise that young Cliff Richard about anything ... who wrote Devil Woman and a bunch of other songs for me, and has produced an album with ...

It was when Massiel triumphed at Eurovision with La, la, la and humiliated Cliff Richard, who came in second with his Congratulations at the Royal Albert Hall in London. A one-point difference was ...