World of Twist

I was saddened to read in the Guardian that Tony Ogden died recently. The name may mean nothing to you. He was the lead singer and main guy in World of Twist, a lost band of the early 1990s. They were kind of the pop Hawkwind, but they failed to achieve the levels of commercial success that this would suggest. WoT split after one album, Quality Street. whose scratchy vinyl copy I must replace sometime. They had one awesomely good tune, their non-breakthrough single 'Sons of the Stage'. I still do not understand why that never became a monster hit, if only for discerning indie fans.

Sources suggest that Mr Ogden's relative lack of productivity post-WoT may have been related to his heroin addiction.