I strongly recommend you try to find a musician from Brighton (now) called Barry Walker - a blues guitarist - who was talking about using electric instruments to play folk music in about 1964/5 (not absolutely sure of the date - but about two years before the first formation of Steeleye Span) - to all the people he knew in the South London Music enclave (or ghetto, if you prefer), including McGuinness, Flint, and others and indeed to Lloyd (to whom he made many suggestions for "the Idiot"). I think he works at the university. Try to find the old habitues of the Tiger's Head in Lee Green.

Try not to swallow the propaganda machine's legends whole...