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"They could make all of the music without the get-up and I think they'd still do well," he says.

Mr and Mrs Ross were looking for an investment opportunity, and thought they'd found the perfect solution when they came across Malton Grange Country Park, a static caravan site in North Yorkshire.

But soon after leaving, they were shocked to see their lodge back up for sale, in exactly the same lakeside spot, for £110,000 - £87,000 more than they'd been paid for it.

About his musical beginnings, he said: “My mother and father bought a piano and an organ one day and they’d play duets on it. When they weren’t playing, I’d go to the piano and learn how to plunk out the Four Freshmen songs and analyze the sound and the harmonics of it. The only lessons I ever took were accordion lessons for a month once.”

First they’d try to cover for it, say it was just to impress the “baddies” at the juice bar, but eventually you could tell that they’d stopped believing in us and started believing in them.