What We Did Instead of Holidays (Signed first edition)

Signed by Clinton Heylin. Fairport Convention & its extended folk-rock family

Author

Clinton Heylin

Publisher

Route Publishing, Pontefract, 2018

What We Did Instead of Holidays (Signed first edition)

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 384pp.

Signed to the title page by Clinton Heylin.

In June 1968, a group of Muswell Hillbillies made their official album debut as Fairport Convention. In the next fifteen years, three of those founding Fairportees Richard Thompson, Ashley 'Tyger' Hutchings and Simon Nicol along with the next generation of Fairport recruits—Iain Matthews, Sandy Denny, and the three Daves: Swarbrick, Pegg and Mattacks—would form a veritable dynasty of English folk-rock, each pursuing their own path, but always returning to work with each other, to collectively produce albums with a near-eternal appeal.

Which is why every year since 1979 in a field somewhere near Banbury, 20,000-plus fans have congregated to celebrate this music's enduring appeal at the Cropredy Festival.

So, fifty years on, now seems like the right time to tell the full story: to collect all the family lore that surrounds Fairport and its surrogates, and to disentangle the many highs and lows from those first fifteen years of Fotheringport Confusion.

Drawing on interviews with all the musicians and key figures in English folk-rock—including producers extraordinaire Joe Boyd and Sandy Roberton—Clinton Heylin has produced the definitive history of a folk-rock family in its golden era.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition. There is a very little wrinkling to the wrapper at the head of the spine and some minor spotting to the pages' top edge. The wrapper has not been price-clipped.