Just been revelling in Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity's uniquely Engish take on Wheel's On Fire prior to Batman on BBC4, and noticed, as I suppose I never have before, that the whole thing is drenches & dripping in delicious Mellotron. Well, if we're including the Stylophone (at my insistence I might add!) then the Mellotron has got to be in there too.

What would English music be without it? Wheel's On Fire notwithstanding, there's - The Moody Blues Nights in White Satin, King Crimson's Epitaph, Joy Division's Closer album, Matching Mole's eponymous first album and - countless, countless others, exploiting this uniquely sounding & most English sounding of all English musical instruments making some of the most uniquely English of all English Music, like - er - Hero & Heroine by Strawbs anyone?

That last one's the closest I think of a Mellotron in a folkish context by the way, but I'm not so well up on such things so if anyone's got any other examples, hoik 'em on.