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830:", at over eight. There was a medley of four traditional tunes, arranged, and, like many of the tracks, enlivened, by Swarbrick's energetic fiddle playing. The first side was bracketed by original compositions "Come all ye" and "Farewell, Farewell", which, in addition to information on the inside of the gatefold cover on Hutchings' research, explaining English folk traditions, helped give the record the feel of a
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1221:(1985) was generally well received in the music and national press, but caused some tension with Swarbrick who refused to play any of the new material at the 1985 Cropredy Festival. Nevertheless, the decision to reform the band, without Swarbrick, was taken by the other three remaining members. Ric Sanders was invited to join, along with guitarist, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist
1053:(1976) under the name 'Fairport' (as opposed to Fairport Convention) in the UK, and as 'Fairport featuring Dave Swarbrick' in the US, and with various session players and production by Simon Nicol, who subsequently rejoined the band. They then signed with Vertigo, but record sales continued to decline; after producing the first two of four albums for which they were contracted,
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and fiddle, who formerly worked with
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Cropredy, and it was very productive in terms of recording. Fairport had the considerable composing and arranging skills of Allcock and, to fill the gap created by a lack of a songwriter in the band, they turned
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In the recurring pattern, soon after the album's release
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Mattacks found that they all had some free time and an available studio belonging to Pegg. They decided that they needed some new material to add to the catalogue that had been suspended in 1978. As Swarbrick was unavailable, the selection of traditional tunes was more
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which gave him well-paying steady employment. Simon Nicol had teamed up with Dave
Swarbrick in a highly regarded acoustic duo, but this partnership was made difficult by Swarbrick's sudden decision to move to Scotland, where, from 1984, he began to focus on his new project
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lineup of Simon Nicol, Dave
Swarbrick, Dave Pegg, and Dave Mattacks played a number of gigs in the UK in the early 80s, then toured extensively in the UK and the US in 1984 and 1985. Band alumni like Richard Thompson and Bruce Rowland would occasionally join in.
1000:(1974), the ninth studio album by the band. The last of these contained writing contributions by Lucas to five of the nine tracks, which together with Donahue's country influences and outstanding guitar pyrotechnics gave the album a very distinctive feel.
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difficult than for past albums and there was a need for a replacement fiddle player and some vocals. Pegg and Nicol took over arranging duties on an instrumental medley and the band turned to sometime Albion Band members: jazz and folk violinist
1126:, which would be the major outlet for the band in the future. Members continued to take part in occasional gigs, particularly in festivals in continental Europe, and after a year they staged a reunion concert in Cropredy which became the annual
964:(1971). The concept format, originally without clear tracks, excited considerable press interest, and it received good air play in the United States where it reached number 195. A version was produced by the BBC for TV in 1975 with narration by
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Influential Folk Album of All Time' by Radio 2 listeners. At the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Fairport Convention received an award recognising the late Sandy Denny and the band for "Favourite Folk Track of All Time" for
1294:(1997), particularly the rousing "John Gaudie". By the time of the 30th anniversary Festival at Cropredy in 1997, the new Fairport had been in existence for over a decade and contributed a significant chapter to the history of the band.
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Swarbrick remained, and the following few years have been dubbed 'Fairport confusion' as a bewildering sequence of band members came and went, but by 1973 Mattacks had returned and two former members of Sandy Denny's
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album and tour in 1982. Bruce
Rowlands gave up the music business and moved to Denmark and as a result Dave Mattacks returned as drummer for Fairport's occasional gigs. Dave Pegg was the first of several Fairporters to join
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In 2022, Gerry Conway made the decision to leave the band after 24 years, and it was announced that the band would continue as a four piece. Conway did not make public that he left because he was suffering from
792:, aged only nineteen, and Jeannie Franklyn, Richard Thompson's girlfriend, were killed. The rest of the band suffered injuries of varying severity. They nearly decided to disband. However, they reconvened with
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was a huge leap forward in concept and musicality. The album consisted of six traditional tracks and three original compositions in a similar style. The traditional tracks included two sustained epics:
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for material and inspiration. The name "Fairport Convention" and the use of two lead vocalists led many new listeners to believe that they were an American act, earning them the nickname 'the British
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magazine who declared that "Fairport Convention is better than ever". The album reached number 13 in the UK Chart and stayed in the chart for eleven weeks. The same year the band released a single, "
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album in 1975 in a final bid to crack America; this effort failed, and after three more albums minus Denny and Lucas, the group disbanded in 1979. They played a farewell concert in the village of
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killed Lamble and Jeannie Franklyn, Thompson's girlfriend; this resulted in the group retiring most of their prior material and turning entirely towards British folk music for their seminal album
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in North London in 1966 when they both played in the Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra. They rehearsed on the floor above Nicol's father's medical practice in a house called "Fairport" on
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as "Fairport Acoustic Convention" in 1996. For a while the four-piece acoustic line-up ran in parallel with the electric format. When Allcock left the band, he was replaced by
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Rowland, Pegg, and Swarbrick fulfilled their remaining contractual obligations to Island Records by turning what had originally been a Swarbrick solo effort into the album
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The Peggs continued to record and release the Cropredy concerts as 'official bootlegs'. These were supplemented by New Year's gigs in minor locations including the
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which managed to capture the energy and power of the new Fairport on stage, despite the fact that it was recorded in the studio with audience reactions dubbed on.
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Denny rejoined the band in 1974, and there were considerable expectations, both artistic and commercial, placed on this line-up. Denny was featured on the album
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The band's first official YouTube video appeared in April 2008. Edited from footage shot for the DVD, the nine-minute mini-documentary includes interviews with
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who contributed one song and co-wrote one track each with Nicol and Mattacks; the latter of these, "The Hiring Fair", would become a stage fixture of Fairport.
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1065:(1978), Vertigo bought them out of their contract. It is claimed by members of the band that this was the only recording money they had seen up to that point.
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did not aid morale and, despite the relative success of the line-up, Lucas and Donahue left the band, as did Denny in 1976. She died aged 31, in 1978, of a
2046:"'You had to hold on to the furniture when Sandy sang': Live fast, die young ... John Harris pays tribute to the one-woman maelstrom that was Sandy Denny"
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1239:(1986). This showcased the virtuosity of Sanders and Allcock, but perhaps inevitably was not popular with all fans. This was followed by the recording
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took over on drums and percussion. Fairport produced two more studio albums for Woodworm Records:
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980:had joined the band, Denny's Australian husband
826:", which was over seven minutes in length, and "
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917:", and made its American debut, touring with
748:", a French-language version of Bob Dylan's "
3418:Moat on the Ledge - Live at Broughton Castle
1560:– drums, percussion, keyboards, bass guitar
1414:. Footage of the festival, although not the
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2517:"A Mini-History of Fairport Convention"
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1044:after falling down a flight of stairs.
411:Denny began steering the group towards
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3596:The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
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2739:"Fairport Convention 2023 Winter Tour"
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1533:List of Fairport Convention members
1111:In August 1979, the band played at
1092:of Fairport Convention on stage at
984:on vocals and guitar, and American
941:, and this inspired the next album
723:English Folk Dance and Song Society
360:band, formed in 1967 by guitarists
13:
3935:Musical groups established in 1967
3477:The History of Fairport Convention
2840:. London: Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
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3930:1967 establishments in England
3879:Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
3667:Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
3522:Fairport's Cropredy Convention
3257:Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
2490:Abbot, Scott (31 March 2008).
2091:(London: Helter Skelter, 2002)
2077:. No. 52. pp. 28–32.
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1909:, retrieved on 14 January 2009
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1761:Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
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1094:Fairport's Cropredy Convention
1020:, reaching No. 52. During the
554:Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
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3960:Transatlantic Records artists
3847:Alex Campbell and His Friends
2695:ra120118 (26 November 2022).
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1321:and Fairport Convention, 2012
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772:Developing British folk rock
665:first Isle of Wight Festival
556:" – recorded by Fairport on
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3745:What We Did on Our Holidays
3723:Sandy Denny and the Strawbs
3610:Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
3402:Live at the L.A. Troubadour
3105:What We Did on Our Holidays
2897:. Oxford University Press.
2855:Humphries, Patrick (1997).
2836:Humphries, Patrick (1982).
2553:Redwood & Woodward 1995
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1028:and was replaced by former
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2087:B. Hinton, and G. Wall,
1889:11 February 2009 at the
1697:The Bonny Bunch of Roses
1353:Birmingham Symphony Hall
1056:The Bonny Bunch of Roses
764:by Scottish folk artist
701:During the recording of
3965:Vertigo Records artists
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3940:A&M Records artists
2893:Sweers, Britta (2005).
2604:www.sussexexpress.co.uk
2570:2 February 2009 at the
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2266:Official Charts Company
1512:Fairport Unconventional
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861:1970s: A time of change
750:If You Gotta Go, Go Now
526:BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
402:their self-titled debut
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3945:Island Records artists
3886:The Battle of Evermore
3362:I'll Keep It with Mine
3217:In Real Time: Live '87
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3348:If I Had a Ribbon Bow
3265:The Wood and the Wire
3249:Old New Borrowed Blue
2589:triple-CD set (1998).
2366:Humphries, pp. 95–97.
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1769:The Wood and the Wire
1753:Old New Borrowed Blue
1493:motor neurone disease
1349:Matty Grooves Records
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2496:Home.myfairpoint.net
2376:Frame, Pete (1983).
2151:"In a lonely moment"
1721:Expletive Delighted!
1410:taking the place of
1236:Expletive Delighted!
1229:1986–1997: Stability
1215:The resulting album
1183:Shoot Out the Lights
1042:cerebral haemorrhage
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3773:Rising for the Moon
3736:Fairport Convention
3485:Fairport Chronicles
3169:Rising for the Moon
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2820:. 20 February 2008.
2793:Leamington Observer
2743:The Oxford Magazine
2631:. 12 September 2022
2583:As commemorated in
1973:Hutchings, Ashley.
1923:Humphries, pp. 7–9.
1681:Rising for the Moon
1609:Fairport Convention
1437:, Geoff Hughes and
1006:Rising for the Moon
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717:on a recording of "
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3861:Don't Stop Singing
3442:From Past Archives
3410:Farewell, Farewell
3305:By Popular Request
3281:Over the Next Hill
3241:Jewel in the Crown
1809:By Popular Request
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3036:Sandy Denny
2989:Ric Sanders
2975:Simon Nicol
2798:28 February
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2244:Sweers 2005
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3617:Rendezvous
3426:House Full
3129:Full House
3026:Judy Dyble
2818:PopMatters
2521:Fclist.org
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2056:17 January
1863:References
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1357:Alan Simon
1153:Gloucester
1026:Glyn Johns
896:Full House
806:folk music
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778:Birmingham
766:Al Stewart
711:Birmingham
603:Judy Dyble
459:Full House
394:Judy Dyble
368:, bassist
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3820:The Bunch
3642:Gold Dust
3624:Gold Dust
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2635:1 October
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1868:Citations
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1527:Personnel
1471:, 2017's
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1145:Half Moon
1012:Billboard
950:Billboard
847:Pentangle
734:John Peel
657:The Byrds
653:Bob Dylan
645:folk rock
587:the Kinks
538:folk punk
454:Dave Pegg
382:Bob Dylan
378:folk rock
358:folk rock
314:Bob Brady
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95:1967–1979
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3496:Box sets
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1887:Archived
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3829:Rock On
3707:Strawbs
3340:Singles
2706:2 March
2680:2 March
1538:Members
1255:(1989)
1159:(later
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843:Strawbs
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782:Mothers
680:Strawbs
569:Origins
564:History
429:fiddler
338:Website
197:Members
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123:A&M
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3780:Heyday
3507:(1998)
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