Best known for their 1976 smash ‘(Do The) Spanish Hustle’, the Fatback Band were known for playing fast and loose with styles as
‘The Stranger’
Backing their haunting, sub-gothic cover of Michael Carr’s ‘Man Of Mystery’ (recorded at the stroke of midnight at Abbey Road, just to heighten the effect) came something possibly darker than the Edgar Wallace Mysteries the A-side was used to soundtrack.