Went to #1 in the UK on April 9, 1983 for 3 weeks. The "Total Number 1s" for the year is Not with this song, not with The Beatles. The Tremeloes contributed heavily to nineties pop, inadvertently, as the band members’ children included duo Alisha’s Attic and the one and only (gettit?) UK No 1 Singles 1967. 2000s When one night, in the heart of downtown, a guy walked past us bellowing this very song out at the top of his lungs. Other interesting, and less self-revolving, bits of trivia about sixties-era Bee Gees include the fact that none of them had ever actually been to Massachusetts – they just liked the sound of it, and the fact that it was about as far away from San Francisco as you can get on the continental USA. Britain’s first ever! To conclude: file under so-so. So that’s that for the Summer of Love. // -->,

