Anyone remember Smokie?

They were a British band from the 60-70s who had the hit "Living next door to Alice". I remember the song from my childhood. They apparently had a comeback in the 90s with one of the more awful comedians Roy Chubby Brown. Sadly, I remember him too from my childhood. They remade the 'Alice' song as "Who the F*#K is Alice?", becuase when touring, the audience would shout out "Who the F*@K is Alice?" after the line: "for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice". It also turns out that this happened in Ireland mostly... which brings me to why I'm writing about Smokie. I have an Irish friend who was shopping in la Coop recently. That's the 'step up' from Migros grocery store. The piped music wafting across the store that day was Smokie.... with the remade Alice song and no bleeps! Even in America, I've never heard piped in music with the 'Eff' word. All the Swiss house wifeys were singing along, and so was my friend.
I've found the complete story in Wikipedia.