An alarmingly youthful Ant & Dec stare down the barrel of the camera. “They’ve sold seven million albums in America,” gushes Dec. “They are the seventh Number One in seven weeks and they are on… Cloud 9.” “No Doubt,” screams Ant, “Are Top Of The Pops!” It had taken No Doubt an awfully long time to make it but, finally, in February 1997, here they were: on top of the UK charts, and indeed the world, with their power-ballad-to-end-all-power-ballads, Don’t Speak, taken from classic album Tragic Kingdom. But even at this moment, just as they took hold of the ‘biggest band in the world right now’ baton, No Doubt’s underground roots were showing. Certainly, that performance on the UK’s much-missed weekly chart rundown – delivered during a vis...
