They were the second great band to come out of Newcastle.
In the early 1960s, it was one-time Club a'Gogo resident five-piece, The Animals, with their electrifying take on the American blues, who hit the big time.
A decade later, the folk-rock-cum-pop creations of a shaggy-haired Tyneside quintet with soaring vocal harmonies, called Lindisfarne, would gain a huge audience and earn them single and album success.
