Chanteuses each of more mature years, but deeply contrasting in styles and content.

La Lavette belts out her offering with a gusto befitting a voice blasted by brimstone and garnished with gravel. The release does exactly what it says on the sleeve – vigorous versions of some of British rock music’s less likely songs. Mostly the treatments are slowed down, pared bare with basic accompaniment of drum, bass and piano. All are rousing renditions, although they differ in quality.

Bizarrely, Lavette’s most inspired interpretations are Derek & The Dominoes’ Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad and a trio of mop-toppers – The Beatles’ seldom heard The Word, Ringo Starr’s jaunty turned blue It Don’t Come Easy and Paul McCartney’s under-rated Maybe I’m Amazed.

Amazing Grace remains folk icon Judy Collins’s best-known song, but she has at least a brace on Paradise that should be equally feted. The proud possessor of one of the most evocative and sublime voices in modern music, even though she is in her sixth decade, she performs at a pitch-perfect pinnacle on Amy Speace’s resonant anti-war song The Weight Of The World, which rakes across the heart in its sadness. Dens Of Yarrow, a Celtic confection, leaves Enya sounding like a caterwauling harridan.