Thomas Jefferson - Airplane

As an interim post, to ease us slowly back into the giddy swing of facetiousness that has been the hallmark of the FalseMemoryFoam© experience, here's the great Thomas Jefferson Kaye (born Kontos) from the obscure '72 non-Wiki'd White Cloud album, through his two solo albums for ABC from the next year, and his last album Not Alone, recorded two years before his death in 1994.

Of all his considerable career achievements, singing an emotional Becker-Fagen original is the most surprising. American Lovers, from First Grade, is that rare thing, a Steely Dan song without a trace of irony - which is maybe why they didn't record it themselves (although they performed it live in 2011). It was covered in 1980 by Blaise Tosti [me neither - Ed.], and is, as they say, a belting good tune.

A pharmaceuticals enthusiast from the moment he touched down in California, he eventually died from overdosing on the painkillers he took to ease the pain of overdosing on all the other drugs he took. Hey ho. But he left a brilliant body of work, both as musician and producer.

Tommy Kontos, top right, wit' Th' Ideals, Noo Joizy, '59