November 1967 - May 1968 Judy Dyble Ashley Hutchings Martin Lamble Ian Matthews Simon Nicol Richard Thompson
May 1968 - January 1969 Sandy Denny Ashley Hutchings Martin Lamble Ian Matthews Simon Nicol Richard Thompson
January 1969 - May 1969 Sandy Denny Ashley Hutchings Martin
Lamble Simon Nicol Richard Thompson
June 1969 - August
1969 :
road crash, in which Martin Lamble and
Richard Thompson's then
girlfriend
(Jeannie Franklyn) died.The time was
spent rehearsing at an old Queen
Anne house in
Farley Chamberlayne near Winchester.
Dave Swarbrick
joins Fairport in July
1969 and Dave Mattacks in August 1969
September 1969 - November 1969 Sandy Denny Ashley Hutchings
Dave Mattacks Simon Nicol Dave Swarbrick Richard Thompson
Everything is now set, the players are
in place,
this is the Fairport line-up that would
record,
according to the BBC's
Top 50 all time greatest
folk albums, the Number
One, the ground breaking,
greatest folk-rock album
of them all, Liege and Lief,
indeed, in 2005, it was
awarded the title Most Influential
Folk Album of All Time,and we
personally won't argue
with that statement.We
can safely say that it is our
favourite album, of all
time.All these years later, it
still stands up, and sounds as good as it did,
on the day of release
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