2. The Swinging Blue Jeans have only ever had two managers, Jim Island and their current manager for 31 years Hal Carter, it was Hal who originally booked them to appear at the Grafton Rooms in Liverpool for a fee of two pounds ten shillings and sixpence in 1957 ... £2.52 in decimal currency!

3. The now infamous 'punch up' between the Jeans and the Rolling Stones at the BBC studios during recording of the first show of Top of the Pops was the result of an argument over a ball point pen for signing autographs!.

4. So successful was the first appearance by the Swinging Blue Jeans on that initial Top of the Pops show, that the BBC rebooked them for a second appearance ...... 25 years later.

5. Negotiations for the Swinging Blue Jeans appearance at the Star Club in Hamburg were handled by no less a person than Paul McCartney, mainly due to him being the only person and the time who spoke a bit o' German ... rumour has it he is still waiting for his commission!.

6. The Jeans had their own 'Tuesday Guest Night' while they were resident band at the Cavern. One of the first bands they invited as their guests were The Beatles.

7. It was during one of The Beatles Tuesday night guest appearances that the Swinging Blue Jeans first heard the 'Fab Four' playing 'Hippy Hippy Shake'. Within one week the Jeans had recorded the song with producer Wally Ridley, the rest is history!.

8. Actress Sue Johnson of 'Brookside' fame, bought Chan Romero's version of 'Hippy Hippy Shake' at Brian Epstein's NEMS record store so that singer Ray Ennis could learn the correct lyric.

9. 'Hippy Hippy Shake' was a worldwide smash hit in no less than nineteen countries. It reached No. 1 in the Disc UK chart in 1964, making the Blue Jeans version 34 years of age!.

10. The photograph for the sleeve of the Jeans debut album 'Blue Jeans Are A Swinging' was taken by a young Nicholas Ridley, now an elected MP with the Conservative Party.

11. While 'Hippy Hippy Shake' was riding high in the charts, the Swinging Blue Jeans made a cameo guest appearance in the Christmas edition of the highly popular Liverpool based BBC television series 'Z Cars'.

12. After appearing in 'Z Cars' the Jeans were arrested on the outskirts of Nottingham. They were dressed in their trademark blue denim jeans and mistaken for escapees from the local prison!.

13. The Swinging Blue Jeans are the only band Cilla Black never sang with at The Cavern!.

14. A lucky tip off during a tour of Czechoslovakia allowed the Blue Jeans to escape the Russian invasion with just 12 hours to spare!.

15. The Swinging Blue Jeans starred in the first Christmas film ever produced in Europe ... it was also the last!.

16. The Swinging Blue Jeans were the only Liverpool band of the 60's to have their own weekly show on Radio Luxembourg.

17. The Jeans hate miming for television!.

18. At times, the Blue Jeans still have trouble about wearing jeans in clubs even though they're appearing there and wear jeans on stage!.

19. Although the Swinging Blue Jeans have only had 6 hit records in the U.K., they have notched up no less than 20 hits throughout Europe!.

20. Over the years, 'Hippy Hippy Shake' has been recorded countless times by such artists as Billy Fury, The Beatles, Little Tony, Chan Romero, Mud, and the Georgia Satellites, but to date the Swinging Blue Jeans have had the only hit version!.