"It was just women and bottles of Jack Daniel's everywhere." The story of the Next Big Thing whose career was killed by a soppy power ballad

Heavy Pettin publicity photo.

BBC1 chat show Wogan wasn’t often home to bacchanalian excess. But when guests Heavy Pettin performed their Song For Europe entry Romeo on it in April 1987, things got wild.

“Terry Wogan walked into our dressing room and lost his mind,” the band’s frontman Stephen ‘Hamie’ Hayman tells Classic Rock today, laughing. “It was just women and bottles of Jack Daniel’s everywhere.”