I recorded early Rolling Stones demo, but no-one was interested

Florence said the 1963 session featured the classic 1960s five-piece line-up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and the band’s long-standing keyboard player/associate Ian Stewart.

Not long after that first session, The Rolling Stones returned to the studio to record another four tracks.

Having worked with the band twice, Florence remembered them as being very polite and well-spoken, describing them as “college boys”, and “not yobbos”.

Florence said the new recordings were added on to a tape alongside their earlier work, all eight of which were R&B covers, but he could not now recall the songs.

“I thought, ‘you know – a tremendous band’, and we sent them off again and no-one was interested, and we were very disappointed so we left it at that,” he said.