Ringo Starr may have only seen visions of what America was like in Liverpool, but one band completely shifted his perception of the country he idolised.

Not a medium known for its mammoth length, one UK act entered the charts with a single length that towers over any other song in history to enter the charts.

Ira Dean and Ted Nugent pair for "WWCDD," a song that honors a five-decade country music tradition of celebrating honky-tonk, ...