Am amazing two years for Fairport convention with the release of three alabums – Unhalfbricking, Lieg& Lief and Full House
Interviews, anecdotes and stories come from Joe Boyd, Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, John Wood, Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, David Betteridge, Sandy Denny, Jimmy Page, Dave Mattacks, Al Stewart and Chris Blackwell.
Richard Thompson provides the explanation of how the album was named Unhalfbricking .
For Liege & Lief, photographer Eric Hayes has kindly given us exclusive pictures of the Fairports rehearsing at a house in Farley Chamberlayne. There’s some cracking portraits in this shoot of some very young musicians.
In the pages covering Full House, we managed to get the tour diary of the band for 1970. My god did they do a lot in 12 months.
We also have a feature dedicated to drummer Martin Lamble, who died in a road accident coming back from a gig, aged 17.
