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Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock group, formed in 1970 by vocalist Sandy Denny on her departure from Fairport Convention. The band drew its name from Denny's 1968 composition "Fotheringay" about Fotheringhay Castle, in which Mary, Queen of Scots, had been imprisoned. The song originally appeared on the 1969 Fairport Convention album, What We Did on Our Holidays, Denny's first album with that group. The band expressed Denny's vision of the potential of folk rock to express complex
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- Instance of
- album
- Follows
- Liege & Lief
- Producer
- Joe Boyd
- Duration
- 2635
- Performer
- Fotheringay
- Record label
- Island Records
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- 1970-06-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- form of creative work
- studio album
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