Renowned as the band that invented British folk-rock, Fairport formed in 1967 and in 2002 won the BBC Radio 2 Lifetime Achievement Award.
In the ensuing folk rock stampede, Vanguard never did reap the huge folk rock sales of Columbia or even its indie rival Elektra.
As early as 1976, he was playing clubs with a folk-rock group called Flip City.
They rode the wave of folk rock popularity in the mid-60s and outlasted many of the artists from that period.
Over the years, their folk rock dropped out of mainstream popularity, but the pair remained extremely popular in the indie music world.
