Alan Anger: Step Forward was started by Mark Perry. For a laugh I did a similar kind of thing. The idea was this record was going to come out. So I did the A&B side labels and had them all printed already but it didn’t get done because I couldn’t get them in the studio or whatever.

I thought I’ve had all these things printed up and I don’t want to waste them. So I bought a load of singles up and labelled them and sent them off to the music weeklies. Most of the papers actually reviewed it for a laugh and they got the joke. We got single of the week in Sounds.

Linnet Evans - Sounds 19.11.77

Fiona Dutton: Of course the main thing about Defiant is that the single is the most sought after punk single in America and the fifth rarest record in the world which is interesting as we didn’t make a record. What happened is that we recorded it, had the labels printed then had no more money. Allan and Dok stuck labels to old singles (Gene Pitney) scratched 'ha ha' across them, made picture sleeves and sent them off to NME and Sounds and we got reviewed – might even have been record of the week in Sounds. I have actually seen someone advertising for sale a whole list of punk singles INCLUDING our non-existent one.

Alan Anger. I don’t know. It never got done! They eventually did go in the studio but I’d stopped managing them by then.

Right. Pape, Alan, Kaye and Dij. Photo Walt Davison