1976. Disillusioned with the hippy movement, and without a wife, I found myself alone with nothing to do but write a novel. From this period came, "The Electric Love Trumpet" a book based not-so-loosely on the previous year's experiences travelling around Spain and Australia with a little known rock band called Soft Hair. The novel's main character, a singer called Jake Ramlan, was convinced he was receiving important messages from outer space through his testicles. (The messages were apparently in stereo) They were then translated, ventriloquist-style, by various girlfriends during the act of love. Overwhelmingly these messages usually went along the lines of, "Gimme your lovin spoonful Cowboy Jake" but the singer contested that this was in fact a code for much more serious messages concerning the future of human kind itself. The novel was big in Malta but received little attention elsewhere.