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A\1 5ainrs Manc,hesrer 1. 213 6534- 17 Fleec.eSt. (off Dra~St.) Roc..hdoJe, 53596 SPRING 1975 NUMBER 1 7-34 VICTORIA CENTRE~ NOTTINGHAM Malcolm Hevhoe Chloe Alexander Paul Carroll Irena Kruszona If youtllike to reprint anything, that's fine but drop us a line tirst please Salutations &Nods to: Pam and her speedy typing .Nina, Myitzu & McD's for help, encouragement and food·The Studio Hunters·The Free Men In London Wl (who are Stoking The Starmaker Machinery behind the not­ so-Popular Song)·late Nightzz· Lick Out For LIQUORICE· ~_;~"{f.::'_f'1 An Article eoneerning .. got the album, I 1d sent me money off to Virgin Recorda before the album was released, ani the postman delivered it one sunny June morning, leaving me the rest of the afternoon to marvel at this bit of shiny plastic. I.TBI REVIEW Now the fir at thing ~u ' 11 notice about the album is the startling and authentic Everyone has their favo\U''i te music. Such gems as "Meet On cover. The front sleeve guitarist. Mine is Richard The Ledge" , "Sloth", "Crazy Man features Ric~ clad in a sort Thompson . There is no one else Michael", and "Now Be Thankful". of black leotard, his face I'd rather hear; the exquisite The latter three were co- written covered by a mask with bulbous delicacy ahd distinctive tones with a-ce fiddler, Dave Swarbrick. red eyes. This is all set of a Thompson guitar solo are Suffice to say that the ~ainet the backdrop of a one of life' s finer moments . collectiv~ contribution made by ~pically English ancestral Richard is a+so British, and Fairport Convention to British hal:. along with John Martyn, Roy rock mt:.Sic was peerless. GreS; The adverts for the . Ha.rper and Kevin Ayers , he stuff, Definitelv one of the alb m depicted Richard swanning represents the very cr~me de finest bands ever to emerge around the open fields of la creme of British contemporar~ from our windy and rain bleached merry England with said song. Richard Thompson's music isle. leotard and a pair of base­ has been a joy to those who've ball boots. (In fact one been careful and fortunate Now , I don' t want to produce reams of waffle lady I know has made a wall enoll8h to listen. Right from display from the adverts for the haunting chorus of the now concerning the Fairporta , the album) . claseoic "Meet On The Ledge" to because their history belongs the uncluttered and teeming to another article, and I All these photographs guitarplay on "Hokey Pokey" . think it unfair to Richard , if were taken at a large estate Hopefully this article will let this pi~ce ignores hie music somewhere near Cambridge, us all know a little more about after Fairport. So let' s which was owned by a some­ Richard and hie music. So read move on. what eccentric gentleman. on. After hie departure from The back cover shows Richard Thompson was born Fairport, in January 1971 , Richard standing by an old in London some twenty six years Richard played on a whole host Glasgow tram, in London ' s ago. Hie father was Scottish of sessions for various Victoria and Albert Museum. and Richard grew up around people (details later) , gigged It also contains one of hie Archway and Highgate. After sporadically with the Albion funny little stories. leaving school he was apprenticei Country Band , played a mini­ Finally there is an extract to a graphic design firm with tour of Noroh Devon with on the Fly r eprinted from a particular jntereet in staili Shirley Collins, backed Sandy Ambrose Bierce's excellent glass window design. This Denny at numerous concerts, book "The Enlarged Devils lasted about six months . and appeared on "The Bunch" Dictionary" • You can get it Richard ' s increasing musical and "Morrie On" albums . on Penguin, I think. involvement with a group of Then in June of 1972 , I ' ve described the friends had led to the formatior. Island released "Hen.ry the cover to you, because it is of the Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra. Human Fly". This was to be somehow indicative of the This soon developed into the Richard's first true solo music contained inside. now hallowed constitution known outing •on wax since leaving Inventive, unusual, and very as Fairport Convention. One, the Fairports. There n:ro English. I ' m also a sucker Simon Nicol lived in a house twelve songs on the album for c~ere , too. Come to called Fairport, in North and their originality and think of it, there aren't London ' s Mus well Hill, and HO quirkishnees is both that many record covers which the name suggests, friends used refreshing nnd stimulating. say a lot about the music to gather tijere. Side one contuino six soneo - inside. Two covers which do The Fairporte were a pll.rt "Roll Over Vaughn Willin.me"/ though, spring quickly to of the heady summer of 1967 . "Nobody' a Weddirv:r,"/"Poor mind . Remember the first They first gigged around Spring Ditchinp; Boy"/" Shu.ky Nu.ncy" I album by Little Feat, and. of that year, but come the "Angol Took My Racehorse Away" "Solid Air" by John Martyn.