Jethro Tull - "The Witch's Promise" (1970)
The Blackpool folk band had a No4 UK hit with this in 1970.
The band, still going to this day, are fronted by Ian Anderson, who is also the band's flautist.
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Anderson and his family moved down to Blackpool on the Lancashire coast when he was 11 where he later founded the band.
Partially as a result of this Anderson, now aged 78, is a staunch unionist, a supporter of the union between the four great nations.
"I'm a Brit. I see myself as a product of that union."
1970 was the year The Beatles split; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) severed ties with Britain but her independence would not be recognised internationally until 1980; the ashes of Hitler, Braun, Goebbels and Goebbels' wife and children were scattered into the Biederitz river; the Royal Navy abolished its daily rum rations for its sailors; and Fiji gained its independence from Britain...
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