A long-running band from Oldham that mixed folk, rock, and progressive sounds across more than twenty albums.
For a sense of their early sound, 'Mocking Bird' holds up. Later, something like 'Poor Man's Moody Blues' tells you where they landed.
They carved out a space in the late 1960s and 1970s with a melodic, thoughtful approach that wasn't quite like anyone else's. Songs like 'Mocking Bird' and 'Poor Man's Moody Blues' show that blend of folk and prog, and they kept at it through lineup shifts and even a plagiarism lawsuit over 'Mocking Bird' in 1976. Their catalog is a steady, under-the-radar thread in English rock.
They formed in Oldham in the late 1960s and signed with Harvest Records in 1970, releasing their self-titled debut that year. The 1970s saw albums like 'Time Honoured Ghosts' and the departure of drummer Stuart Wolstenholme in 1979, but John Lees, Les Holroyd, and Mel Pritchard kept recording into the 1980s with 'Victims of Circumstance'.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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