....that Tyger Hutchings took the band to play",
(to paraphrase Lennon-McCartney)
in Golders Green.
On this very day back in 1967 – just days before Sgt Pepper’s release and the impending summer of love – a group of fellow North Londoners played their first ‘live’ gig.
It began with friends Ashley ‘Tyger’ Hutchings and Simon Nicol collecting together Richard Thompson and Shaun Frater for everyone to.....
Golders Green, opp Woolworth’s.
Adv. Tickets 5s. 01-883-2505”.
It's extraordinary to think that that unprepossessing band of North London teenagers have burgeoned into the pantheon of the British folk-rock legends. Forty years on, it looks like Fairport may well be around in another 50-100 years…somehow.
I have pulled my original posting so that I can dredge up some more thoughts and repost a lengthened
version in a week or so
I have pulled my original posting so that I can dredge up some more thoughts and repost a lengthened
version in a week or so
