Agincourt were a late sixties

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band. The band consisted of

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, Peter Howell, and

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. They released one privately pressed

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under the band name, ''Fly Away'', on the Merlin

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. This LP has commanded high prices amongst collectors especially after a mid-nineties CD release. In total, the partnership released five albums credited without the band name. The members of Agincourt were also involved in writing tracks for ''Alice Through The Looking Glass'', ''Ithaca'', and ''Tomorrow Come Someday''. The group broke up in the early 1970s when Howell secured a BBC sound engineering position and worked on the soundtrack for ''

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''. Ferdinando would sporadically involve himself in the folk music scene thereafter. As for Menelaus, she performed small roles of vocals and spoken-word on soundtracks.

References

External links

Site with details of various Peter Howell and John Ferdinando projects

Peter Howell and John Ferdinando site
Psychedelic folk groups {{UK-band-stub