They started out covering Clash tracks under the moniker Vortex Motion and ended up as a pop band.

They cultivated gruff, rough-and-ready stubble but teamed it with colourful silk shirts.

They had one of the world's most famous heroin addicts as a singer and became British housewives' most humdrum fantasy.

And yet, despite all these unusual tensions, Wet Wet Wet have managed to create a back catalogue of soul-pop which is wholly lacking in intrigue.

Formed in Glasgow, in 1986, by Marti Pellow (actually born Mark McLaughlin) and four schoolfriends, Wet Wet Wet scored their first number one two years later, with a charity cover version of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends.

They went on to produce 25 hits, including drive-time classics Goodnight Girl, Angel Eyes and, of course, a cover of The Troggs' Love Is All Around which, following its appearance on the soundtrack to Four Weddings And A Funeral, spent a ludicrous 15 weeks at the top of the charts.

In 1999, things went awry, with Pellow announcing a drink and drugs problem and, almost simultaneously, a solo career.

But now Wet Wet Wet are back together with a Greatest Hits album, an 11-date arena tour, a DVD and, perhaps least excitingly, their first single in seven years - a slice of faintly bluesy, faintly countrified pop entitled All I Want.

"We heard the record label were talking about putting a greatest hits album together so I did some writing with bassist Graeme," says Pellow.

"I liked what I heard. We thought, 'We're okay'."

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