While still being at school in Hull, Paul Tognola (guitar), Doug Sheppard (vocals, guitar), Terry Hopkinson (bass) and Paul Conyers (drums) formed Ethel The Frog (named after a Monty Python sketch) in 1975. After having recorded several speculative demo tapes, the band decided to take fate in their own hands by releasing the first 7" single of their own Best Records label (in November 1978). Recorded at Fairview Studios in Hull, the single, pressed in a quantity of 500 copies, featured a heavy version of the Beatles "Eleanor Rigby" and their own composition "Whatever Happened To Love" on the flipside.
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