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1 day ago · Fairport Convention initially split up in 1979 following the previous year's Tippler's Tales album. However the final line-up of Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg and Bruce Rowland, reunited for a day in a farmer’s field in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, establishing the iconic Cropredy Convention festival in the process.
1 day ago · The Fairport Convention legend was forged between 1967 and 1979 – 12 years, 16 albums, umpteen line-ups and four exhausted people at the end of it. In August 1980, the last line-up – Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg and Bruce Rowland – reunited for a day in a farmer’s field in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, establishing the iconic ...
7 hours ago · Richard Thompson began his music career as the guitarist for the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. As part of a new generation of British musicians in the late sixties, Fairport Convention borrowed the musical vocabulary of trendy rock bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles – the instruments, the catchy hooks, the cool outfits.
1 day ago · "If [Henry the Human Fly] was a statement of intent, then the opening track was the distillation of the statement," Thompson wrote in Beeswing.Indeed, while "Roll Over Vaughn Williams" isn't the strongest song he ever wrote, it's a perfect opening salvo: a 22-year-old Thompson, emancipated from English folk-rockers Fairport Convention, sounds his strange, beautiful clarion call.
1 day ago · Richard was the guitarist in the folk-rock band Fairport Convention, the 1960s north Londoners who turned a generation of music lovers on from British beat and rhythm and blues to a more lyrical and musically mature sound.
1 day ago · The Fairport Convention legend was forged between 1967 and 1979 – 12 years, 16 albums, umpteen line-ups and four exhausted people at the end of it. In August 1980, the last line-up – Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg and Bruce Rowland – reunited for a day in a farmer’s field in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, establishing the iconic ...
1 day ago · Reissue specialists Madfish are proud to present the Fairport Convention ‘It All Came Around Again: Onstage and On Air 1982-90’ deluxe boxset. For the first time ever, fans can experience the timeless magic of Fairport Convention’s second Golden age all in one place with this meticulously crafted and comprehensive package.
