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recalls Marc, 61. “I had a collapsed lung and a collapsed eardrum when I had the accident.

“I had to get back the confidence to sing and to breathe properly, so doing that tour with Jools was pivotal in helping me get on stage and regain what I feel is an even stronger voice than I had before the accident.”

“Music does have a great healing quality,” Holland agrees.

“People with dementia, if you play music that they love you can often see they’re filled with happiness, even though they might not know who they are. So it’s a very powerful healing thing.

“When Marc came back he wasn’t so confident and had a stutter.

“But on stage, all that vanished. He never let us down once. I think he was concerned about that.

“It was the opposite, him helping us. But I did know that it wasn’t easy for him.”

Holland presents TV’s best and longest running music show Later, as well as keeping his big band on the road – no mean feat. Add Almond’s prolific and varied output and it’s fitting that A Lovely Life To Live has an upbeat