He began as Terence Perkins, a teenage milkman on the Isle of Wight, nudged onstage by a proud mother who believed his voice was meant for more than country lanes and clinking bottles. That gamble turned into Craig Douglas, a name borrowed from a Scottish doorstep and carried into the charts, the cinemas, and the living rooms of post-war Britain. “Only Sixteen” didn’t just top the charts; it stitched itself into first dances, school discos, and quiet Sunday afternoons by the radio.
