There was a glut of dreadful CDs that suddenly came out in the Eighties and Nineties. The confidence trick was that CDs were better than vinyl and cassettes. We were told that you could use them as a frisbee, they were indestructible, and the sound quality was great. I remember getting a CD player and putting one on and thinking, they’ve got to be joking!

Atlantic had put our catalogue out on CDs. They sounded thin and atrocious; in one case they’d even used a copy tape that had a whine on the left channel all the way through it. I said, well, we can’t have this. It needed to be redone.

I decided to go back to the original analogue masters and do a proper job at Sterling Sound with cutting engineer George Marino, so that you would be able to hear the songs the way you ought to.