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Question: what music act was the first after the Beatles to simultaneously chart a single and an LP at the number one spots in England? The answer isn't the Rolling Stones, the Who, David Bowie, or Queen, to name a few major '70s icons. The answer is Peters & Lee, who did it in 1973 with their debut single, "Welcome Home," and the album We Can Make It. A vocal duo who might've been England's answer (assuming anyone asked the question) to the Captain & Tennille, Lennie Peters (1939-1992) and Dianne Lee (b. 1950) first got together in 1970 -- Peters, an aspiring prize-fighter who was blinded in an accident at the age of 16, had been a pianist/singer in pubs around London during the 1960s, and Lee had been a dancer with her cousin in an act called the Hailey Twins, when they met on the same bill. The two began working together and became popular in club and holiday camp performances and topped all of their competitors in a series of appearances on the television series Opportunity Knocks ...