I remember James Ellis, who recently died, spitting his chips all over the place during the first episode of Z Cars. There’s gritty. And cheeky young Davy Jones asking at the counter for a shilling for the meter. (It helps that the programme is available on YouTube.)

I remember having to validate saves. I think it was only on the Sinclair Spectrum, and when you saved a file you then validated it to check it had saved correctly. It might have still been necessary on floppy disks. Nowadays we just assume (or hope) that everything is really there. Or if you’re like me you save it in several places so if one goes wrong you have a backup.

I remember Danny Thompson, who is 75 this week, and, apart from all the wonderful people he has played with, his special relationship with John Martyn. He was playing at the Savourna Stevenson gig where she kissed me on the cheek. And it has only just been brought to my notice by an article in the Telegraph that he was a session musician on Cliff Richard’s Congratulations and the Thunderbirds theme tune…