I recently read this interview from 1990 with Peter Bellamy =========== Politics I don't recall even discussing politics with him [Bruce Dunnet, the veteran Communist, who gave the Young Tradition their name]. I don't even recall politics being much of a topic at all in the folk scene at that time . . . it wasn't such a stranglehold as it had been five years earlier, when it was a genuinely MacColl-dominated folk revival.

But by the time I'd come in, the music was the important thing, not just for me, but for everybody I knew. People getting together and getting high and listening to the Copper Family records and Paddy Tunney and saying wow! They weren't sitting around arguing about the political implications of any of the songs we were singing, or choosing to sing, and no one was peddling very political songs in our direction. We were music enthusiasts, first and last. ========= I've always thought PB is an excellent singer with a breath-taking style, but this really does not fit my memory of the mid sixties at all. (The first Young Tradition LP was released 1966). How do other remember it?(people who were not born then need not answer!)