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Fact #155695

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Everlasting Love by The Love Affair reaches No1 in the UK pop singles chart.

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Steve Ellis (vocals, Love Affair) : It just felt like the ultimate high. We were playing every night and girls were ripping us apart - which, silly as it may sound, became a real pain as it got in the way of the music and people were getting hurt at concerts. As for drugs, some of us took dexys and some dope after gigs. It just seemed like everyone did. We never took acid, although I did some years later. Overrated, I reckon. Mescaline was good for rehearsing but I grew away from all that. As for cocaine - over-priced, overrated, damaging crap. I had a fling with it but it made me ill. I packed all drink and drugs up in 1978.

One story that always makes me laugh was when a hotel we stayed at in Scotland was literally stormed by girls. They were up the drainpipes and across the rooftops. We were hiding some of them in our rooms when the police turned up, big blokes. One of the band was getting a bit carried away in a wardrobe with a girl. This policeman the size of a doorframe opens the wardrobe and said member, stark naked, jumps onto the copper's back, smiling like a loon. I thought, "God, we've had it this time!" However, this copper was brilliant, he just threw him off like a Rag Doll, and said, "Behave, laddie!" I don't know who was more freaked out, the band member or the copper. Anyway, they said, "Enough, or you're all in big trouble." So the girls were all escorted out. Did we give the (naked) band member some stick the next day. "Like big policemen as well do we, eh?" and similar jibes.