History Trivia / FairportConvention

* AuthorExistenceFailure: When LongRunner meets RevolvingDoorBand, actuarial considerations come into play. All but one of the following members died after leaving the band, so this is mostly a problem for anniversary shows -- some lineups cannot be reunited, and some people cannot be invited to make a guest performance.
** Sandy Denny died at the untimely age of 31 from head injuries sustained during a fall down a flight of stairs.
** Martin Lamble, just 19 years old, was killed when the band's van crashed in mid-1969, along with Richard Thompson's girlfriend.
** Dave Swarbrick died in 2016 after suffering a number of health issues over the years.
** Roger Hill – guitar, vocal (1971–1972; died 2011).
** David Rea – guitar (1972; died 2011).
** Trevor Lucas – guitar, vocal (1972–1975; died 1989). Sandy Denny's husband.
** Bruce Rowland – drums (1975–1979; died 2015).
** Maartin Allcock – guitar, mandolin, keyboard, vocal (1985–1996; died 2018). He made a guest appearance at the 2018 Cropredy Festival, a month before his death.
** Judy Dyble, the original lead vocalist, died in 2020 after battling cancer.

** Sandy Denny also had a fairly successful solo career before her untimely AuthorExistenceFailure from a fall down a flight of stairs, as well as a trio of albums with her folk group Fotheringay (two of which were posthumous).

* ShortLivedBigImpact: Though the band is known as one of rock music's LongRunners, its most celebrated lineup - with Richard Thompson on guitar and Sandy Denny on vocals - lasted only around a year and a half. The three seminal albums created by that incarnation of the band; ''Music/WhatWeDidOnOurHolidays'', ''Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}'', and ''Liege and Lief'', were all released in the same year (1969) - though the first was recorded in 1968.

* TheBandMinusTheFace: Several instances owing to their long history and many members, and depending on who the "face" being referred to is:
** 1970's ''Full House'' was their first album after Sandy Denny left the band
** 1971's ''Angel Delight'' is their first album without Richard Thompson in the band, although he still contributed two songs to the record.
** 1973's ''Rosie'' is their first album without Simon Nicol, and thus featured no original members in the lineup, but both Thompson and Denny showed up to provide guest vocals on the title track.
** 1976's ''Gottle O'Geer'' was the album after Denny left the group for a second time, and was initially created as a solo album for Dave Swarbick, but Fairport still owed Island one more album and it was credited to the band as a result. Their next album ''The Bonny Bunch of Roses'' featured the permanent return of Nicol, and the band hasn't had another one of these records since as a result.

* ShortLivedBigImpact: Though the band is known as one of rock music's LongRunners, its most celebrated lineup - with Richard Thompson on guitar and Sandy Denny on vocals - lasted only around a year and a half. The three seminal albums created by that incarnation of the band; ''What We Did On Our Holidays'', ''Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}'', and ''Liege and Lief'', were all released in the same year (1969) - though the first was recorded in 1968.

* ShortLivedBigImpact: Though the band is known as one of rock music's LongRunners, it most celebrated lineup - with Richard Thompson on guitar and Sandy Denny on vocals - lasted only around a year and a half. The three seminal albums created by that incarnation of the band; ''What We Did On Our Holidays'', ''Unhalfbricking'', and ''Liege and Lief'', were all released in the same year (1969) - though the first was recorded in 1968.

** Martin Lamble was killed when the band's van crashed in mid-1969, along with Richard Thompson's girlfriend.

* AuthorExistenceFailure:

** Martin Lamble was killed in band van accident.

* ShortLivedBigImpact: Though the band's identity is one of the great LongRunners by far the most celebrated lineup - with Richard Thompson on guitar and Sandy Denny on vocals - lasted around a year and a half. The three seminal albums created by that incarnation of the band; ''What We Did On Our Holidays'', ''Unhalfbricking'', and ''Liege and Lief'', were all released in the same year (1969) - though the first was recorded in 1968.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sandy Denny died at the untimely age of 31 from head injuries sustained during a fall down a flight of stairs.