It can be moored to the day: On 27 May 1967, the Muswell Hill Fairport Convention was founded in the London district of Muswell Hill, a formation that was to write history. In 1969 the group had delivered their very personal folk rock statements with the records three and four, "Unhalfbricking" and "Liege & Lief". The five musicians, all in their early twenties and under, dedusted the traditional English folklore by enriching it with pithy, sometimes with finely chiselled rock. A new genre was born!
