Thanks for reviving this thread Spleen/Cringe and for the info about the rerelease! I bought both the Mr Fox albums when they first came out - I had only the vaguest idea what Bob had been doing since he was in the year above me at school, and I was absolutely knocked sideways by his songwriting.

Talk about a renaissance man - apart from all his other abilities, I remember Bob in Julius Caesar at school - we all thought the cast were jammy because they got away with Beatle haircuts. Bob got a five star review in the school mag. He later did some of the pictures on Fairport's Liege and Lief inner cover.

I must now replay both the albums, remembering to be very careful with "The Gypsy". Somebody at Transatlantic had the mad idea of doing a gatefold sleeve with the record sandwiched in a polythene bag in the middle. Said bag had a foam sealing strip which was supposed to stop the disc from falling out. Not only did this not work, but the polythene bag eventually became detached and fell out too!