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From the 1979 Led Zeppelin at Knebworth Programme, an advert that stirs memories...

Found in the pile of rubbish we are moving to Swansea ;D

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What is happening in the bottom photo?!! Is that RT playing the squeezebox??

yes, its Si Tu Dois partir on top of the pops

Blimey, Andy.

You had better increase your contents insurance! ;D

Just as a matter of Interest Andy I was at Knebworth in '79[ Not organised enough to have keep the prog through!!] and I also live in Swansea [last 35 years ]

hope the move goes well  - poss see you at the FC Pontadawe gig if you're around by then. Pontardawe arts centre is a really excellent venue with a lot of varied gigs

Paul

I was at that. It (along with Blackbushe the previous year) finally stopped me going to huge festivals.
On the way back to the car the crowd was so dense and so tightly packed and moving at a fair lick I thought that was my lot.

Blinkin 'eck Andy, if that was in the rubbish pile I can't begin to imagine what you have in the good stuff pile!!

Sat at bottom right, I believe, is Hugh Hopper from Soft Machine.  So that's 2 musicians who've played with FC & SM, t'other being Ric.

Out-bloody-rageous.

A couple of names amongst the Thank Yous that I don't know there. Alexandra Elene and MacLean Denny. I presume they were fleeting members as everyone else seems to have been. Does anyone know anything about these two?

That's Sandy's full name :D

I thought it was Trevor Lucus. He certainly played 'triangle' on the album.

Doh! How stupid do I feel now? Especially as I actually knew that!  :-[ :-[ :-[ ;D

For some reason I think I was confused by the spacing between the words Elene & MacLean. Oh dear. The shame! I'll get my coat and not show my face in public in TAW ever again! Well.....for a few minutes anyway.  ::)

I'd just put it down to having a brief 'Junior Moment' if I were you..... ;D

gub old boy, just thank god that it was Jude who noticed that one first
it could have been one of the sarcastic squad :o

This is not quite the non sequitur it might first appear.


I went to college with a guy called Alexander Beech.


Gub Gub, we all have "Beam me up, Scotty" moments   8)

And I would have thoroughly deserved it all!  :-[

I feel very grateful to have got off so lightly!

It sure looks like Hugh Hopper - but I looked up on his extensive gig archive and I can't see a reference to him playing with Fairport. Certainly never come across a reference to it before.
http://www.burningshed.com/hopper/

At Cropredy that year I seem to remember a compere (?) yelling into his mike "and it didn't happen at F***ING KNEBWORTH,it happened HERE!
Who was that man? And did Freddie Truman really appear on stage? Or did I dream it?

its not Hugh Hopper its Steve Sparks who was a roadie for the band at the time

Hey Jim,

looks like you're right - well, I've just looked in Patrick Humphries' MOTL book - and indeed he says its Steve Sparks...  :)

surly youre not surprised ::)

that would have been Sir Johnny Jones......

I read somewhere that it was a roadie called Steve Sparks  ?  Perhaps Jude could enlighten as? 8) 8)

i refer the hon gent to my earlier reply,  look up 5 posts

Yes Steve Sparks it was indeed.

 ;D

aka Jonah of course