Object number
2010/162/1-3
Title
Mr Fantasy,
Collection
Exhibition
Creator
Description
An LP with a gatefold sleeve, ‘Mr Fantasy’ by the band Traffic 1967. The band wrote and rehearsed at a secluded cottage in Aston Tirrold.
This is an LP with a gatefold sleeve of the album ‘Mr Fantasy’ by the rock band Traffic. It was produced by Island Records Ltd. in 1967. The band wrote and rehearsed the material for ‘Mr Fantasy’ at a secluded cottage in Aston Tirrold, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), and the cover of the sleeve is a red-filtered photograph of the band inside the cottage. There is a hand written message on the sleeve which reads ‘In memory of Len Tibbits. Brother of Harry Tibbits, he died shuvling gravel.’
Archival history
Collecting 20thc Rural Culture blog [Thursday, 26 August 2010] – ‘Traffic LP ‘Mr Fantasy’, 1967 // The reason for the inclusion of this item is that when Steve Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in 1967 to form a new band Traffic he, along with his three fellow musicians, lived in a secluded cottage at Aston Tirrold in south Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire) to write and rehearse their new material. The result was this LP, a blend of pyschedelic pop influenced and inspired, amongst other things, by the ageless mystery of the surrounding Berkshire Downs. Jim Capaldi, one of the band members, later recalled the place as exerting a Very Strong Presence. // The cover photo and other sleeve images were taken in and around the cottage. // Over a two year period, other prominent musicians of the day, including Eric Clapton, Steven Stills and Pete Townshend spent time with Winwood at the cottage to drink in the atmosphere. // This recent photo of the cottage is from a Winwood website.’
Production place
Aston Tirrold
Production date
1967 - 1967
Object name
Associated subject
Associated person/institution
