Trivia / Fairport Convention

• Breakup Breakout: While the band has never quite gone away, several former members have gone on to success in other guises.
  • Richard Thompson has enjoyed great critical acclaim as a solo artist even if he hasn't enjoyed mass popular appeal.
  • Ashley Hutchings broke away to form Steeleye Span.
  • Iain Matthews left to form Matthews Southern Comfort who scored an unlikely British #1 in late 1970 with a wistful, post-Altamont reading of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock". Nobody was more astonished than Matthews.
  • Sandy Denny also had a fairly successful solo career before her untimely death 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).
• He Also Did: Dave Pegg also served as the bassist for fellow British Prog-Folk band Jethro Tull.
• One-Hit Wonder: Though albums have sold steadily, "Si tu dois partir" is the band's only chart hit in Britain.
• Short-Lived, Big Impact: Though the band is known as one of rock music's Long-Runners, 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, Unhalfbricking, and Liege & Lief, were all released in the same year (1969) - though the first was recorded in 1968.
• The Pete Best: The band had another female vocalist before Sandy Denny joined, Judy Dyble.

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