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Thread #32268   Message #1178865
Posted By: GUEST,Lindswidder
05-May-04 - 06:09 PM
Thread Name: what musical legends have you known
Subject: RE: what musical legends have you known
in th 70s I moved with my (then) husband to a Northamptonshire village house and Police Station - in the village unbeknown to me were living Sandy Denny and Trevor Lucas. Trevor was a bugger when it came to parking his car (I think it was a Volkswagen Beetle) and collected a number of parking fines which he never paid, until a summons was issued which was said husband's duty to serve...on one occasion he came home, very excitedly, with an autographed Fairport "Live" Album, (the one with them pictured on the steps of the Sydney Opera House)and said "Guess What" - well I was hooked...I went to the first ever Fairport reunion concert which must have been around 1975, about 100 people were present, and it spawned the Cropredy Festival. Subsequently I met the rest of the band... when I had a bike shop in Banbury Dave Pegg came in and bought a Kawasaki and we gave him a load of promotional gear to wear on his forthcoming tour with Jethro Tull... later on I was "heard" playing my accordion by Chris Leslie, and later still by the Yetties' Pete Shutler...great times...oh, and when Cliff Richard came to my Church in 1965 I played my guitar and he sang...........