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Angel Delight is the sixth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. This was the first Fairport Convention album without guitarist Richard Thompson, and the lineup consisted of Simon Nicol (guitar, vocals) (the only original group member), Dave Swarbrick (violin, vocals), Dave Pegg (bass, vocals), and Dave Mattacks (drums). The title derives from “The Angel” in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, a former pub which the band were living in at the time, and the eponymous track is autobiographical, referring to “John the Wood” (co-producer), “Dave the Drum” (Mattacks), and even detail such as “peer through the haze watching Top Of The Pops”. The band moved out of The Angel shortly after the album’s release, partly because a lorry had run, out of control, into... Read on...