The Tone Bender guitar pedal took the rock world by storm in 1965. Already used to add a bit of aural sandpaper by Keith Richards (on the Rolling Stones ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’) and Jeff Beck (the Yardbirds’ ‘Heart Full Of Soul’), Steve Winwood’s sheeting lead on energetic A-side ‘Keep On Running’ was au courant with the fuzzy times. It was an equally defining feature of keyed-up B-side ‘High Time Baby’, the precocious teenage frontman setting it to ridiculous peaks as he cut through ringmaster Spencer Davis’s choppy rhythm, brother Muff’s thundering bass and Peter York’s attack dog drums with a bluesy tale of betrayal. Just to be sure, he finessed this mod all-nighter with a great barrelhouse piano solo two thirds through. Every bit as peppy and urgent as its more celebrated companion (which was adapted from a ska demo by labelmate Jackie Edwards), the single’s number one success did much to establish manager Chris Blackwell’s publishing wing Island Music on the home front. Sadly, the British beat revolutionaries blazed all too briefly, Winwood jumping ship to Traffic just two years later.