1. Broadsword (fantastic cover)
2. Minstrel
3.Crest (great on a T shirt)
4.Heavy Horses
5. Stormwatch (Cold, but atmospheric!)
Probably told this little story before. For 40 years I lived very close to Haddon Hall and visited often.
I often l stood in the Great Hall and looked up at the Minstrels Gallery. After 1975 whenever I visited
Id be singing "Minstrel" in my head,(like we do). I made no other connection other than the obvious
that being near an actual Minstrels Gallery bought the song and album to mind.
Fast forward through the years. This is now the internet era of course and we can discover
most things with little effort. I'm reading an article about album covers, and read that the
"Minstrel" cover is "based on an illustration of the Great Hall at Haddon Hall by Joseph Nash"!
So the gallery in Haddon is THE Gallery and I never knew!
I now live nowhere near Haddon Hall and haven't been there for years.
I need to go back don't I ?