As the daughter of music royalty, she was perfectly placed to be a star herself. Unfortunately, her first songs were miserable flops. Nancy’s breakthrough song came well into her 20s with the sassy ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ which made Nancy Sinatra a star in her own right. Lee Hazlewood wrote it originally as a song for a man to sing but Nancy convinced him that a man singing would sound boorish and hard while a woman singing it would sound like an empowered 60s liberated woman. She was absolutely right of course. The song was a global smash hit, not just because of the power lyrics but the cool, sexy, fabulous way she sang it. She sounds like she’s so done with the loser who’s been cheating on her, she can’t even be bothered to get mad at him. She’s just going to annihilate him, in a bored kind of way. It’s got a feline purr to it…but more of a jungle cat stalking a poor misguided deer. Its brilliant. And of course, the video of Nancy and her dancers in boots and micro-skirts is one for the ages – for me it’s the defining the image of the Go-Go 60’s!

This song was on Forces Request all the time – and I mean all the time. That descending baseline is instantly recognisable in the first split second and the “Are You Ready Boots?” is a brilliant ending to the song!

Hazlewood and Nancy had a number of collaborations but there’s one more that I absolutely am nuts about. It’s called “Summer Wine”. The story of a cowboy who got seduced and rumbled by a mysteriously sexy lady who gave him a special summer wine that knocked him for a six. I don’t quite know why but the storytelling on it really grabs my attention. Even today, I can happily listen to this song on repeat every time I put it on. Of course, I always though the words were “Angels Kissing Springs”