I remember a woman,
A rock 'n' roll woman,
Dancing to heavy rock tunes.

A long-legged woman,
A whole lotta woman,
The only one in the room.

Do they still have heavy metal discos? And are they as gut-wrenchingly depressing as in the seventies, before the New Wave of British Heavy Metal lapped at the balls of impressionable young men up and down the UK?

Saxon, Samson, Praying Mantis, Angel Witch, and of course the all-conquering Iron Maiden who are back in the singles charts this week at number three with yet another very old song in several new formats, delighting their obsessive fanbase, many of whom must be in their forties.

A quarter of a century of earache is thus celebrated as the wave comes into the shore and recedes like thinning forty-five year old hair.

In addition, we've now got Elvis at number one for the next few months, almost completing a full circle for Top of the Pops. As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.