The Strawbs or to give them their original name The Strawberry Hill Boys were a local group to where I was living at the time. I first came across this 1968 release on the Juke Box in the Public Bar of the Red Lion, Hampton where it was a frequently played record, In 1972 one lunch time some one tried to persuade the Land Lady to sell him the record he was offering £7 (a weeks wages for me)for the record.
The Red Lion was one of the pubs that the Brewers decided would be better off with a manager rather than a Landlord just before the end the Landlady removed a number of the records from the Juke Box and gave them to one of my fiends he still has them to this day, a copy of this record was one of them other records were Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" & "Arnold Lane" both the Red Lion & its Juke Box are history now.
As a postscript the original Red Lion was burnt down to give the local fire brigade practice the event was filmed the film still exists though I have not seen it for many years, I can not imagine things like that happening again.
Strawbs - The Man Who Called Himself Jesus
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