I stumbled across a very amusing article by Pete Paphides (see comments below) this morning in which he explains with great candour his childhood fascination for the Brotherhood of Man
“Save Your Kisses For Me was my pre-pubescent Starman moment.”
Which begs the question: if your parents had left you, who would you have wanted to be adopted by?
My shortlist of possible adopters would have probably included the Grateful Dead, the Wombles. Captain Beefheart, Ursula Andress, July Andrews and the Von Trapp Family or Lady Penelope.