I agree it is strange about The Transports. The inspiration was The Who's 'Tommy' ~~ Pete was a big rock fan, had pix & sculptures of Mick Jagger all over the house & once gave me a painting of his own of Jimi Hendrix [where the hell has that got to? I suddenly find myself asking: just realise I have lost it, and am distressed]. Anyhow - he told me he thought to himself, if a 'rock opera', why not a 'folk opera'? Hence The Transports. Why it should have ended his career rather than enhancing it, neither he nor anyone else ever seems to have worked out. Rave reviews. Everybody's 'folk record of the year' [mine in The Guardian, Karl Dallas, Eric Winter, Colin Irwin, Andrew Means...]

'Tis a mystery...

~M~