1963 Jet Harris & Tony Meehan: Diamonds

After the ho hum plod of 'Dance On', ironic then that it should take two ex-members of The Shadows to show how it should be done. Or, rather, how it used to be done - 'Diamonds' is another tune from Jerry Lordan with America at its heart and this one creeps with a pulp fiction B movie menace (these stones definitely have blood on them), that reveals a tune chocfull of plot twist after plot twist as it wrongfoots with abandon from hard plucked guitar runs to brass flourishes, though Meehan's machine gun drum fills forever keep it on point so as to keep it from collapsing in on itself. Like the best films, 'Diamonds' repays repeated listening, and with a young Jimmy Page on acoustic guitar too - I'm sold! Great stuff.