In an era when we’re supposed to be running scared from warnings about the global effects of Swine Flu, Bird Flu and other pandemic ailments, it’s nice to recall a time when the only thing that was sweeping the world and causing mayhem everywhere that it went was an easy to master and perfectly innocuous dance called the Twist. Twistin’ affected the global template of dance like no other craze before or since and, at weddings, christenings, bar mitzvahs and social gatherings everywhere, people are still prone to go roundandaroundanda-upandadown whenever a Dave Doubledecks lets ‘Let’s Twist Again’ or ‘Twistin’ The Night Away’ fly – even people whose parents’ parents were not born when Chubby Checker first demonstrated how to do the dance on American Bandstand.