{"product_id":"agincourt-fly-away","title":"Agincourt - Fly Away","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the mid-1960s, deep in the Sussex countryside of southern England, aspiring musicians Peter Howell and John Ferdinando played in a few school bands before recording together in Howell’s father’s garage. Through Ferdinando’s connections with a theatre group, the duo created a musical companion for their production of Alice Through The Looking Glass, which the duo pressed privately; then, Fly Away, credited to Agincourt, was produced in a spare bedroom, an advertisement bringing Lee Menelaus, whose lilting voice provided a stirring female counterpart to theirs. Much of this psychedelic folk oddity has a quaint innocence fitting of the era and along with English folk-rock there are shades of pop, a touch of West Coast and even jazz in places. Pressed in minute quantity on another private press, original copies have been known to sell for £1500 or more; the duo continued recording, notably on work credited to Ithaca, before Howell became a full-time member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where he notably worked \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon the Doctor Who theme.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"South Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":64322449998201,"sku":null,"price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/1463\/6153\/files\/cover_4654123112019_r_a78e136f-c027-4dd8-b6cf-06a93c88edef.jpg?v=1787901649","url":"https:\/\/vinyl-relic.com\/products\/agincourt-fly-away","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}