Hudson-Ford

Using the follow-up with their Ivor Novello award-winning composition, ‘Component FROM THE Union’, only a hit, bass guitarist John Ford (b. 1 July 1948, Fulham, London, Britain) and drummer Richard Hudson (b. Richard William Stafford Hudson, 9 Might 1948, London, Britain) remaining celebrated folk rock and roll work the Strawbs in 1973 to try their good fortune like a duo. Though each of their albums spawned a UK Best 40 putting – ‘Choose Up The Items’, ‘Burn off Baby Burn off’ and ‘Floating In The Blowing wind’ – each offered significantly less than its forerunner, and insufficient fan dedication to Hudson-Ford by itself pressured disbandment after a tour to market Worlds Collide – which Hudson performed lead acoustic guitar. The pair had been became a member of on stage by drummer Ken Laws and regulations and, on keyboards, Chris Parren who, with people of If, got assisted through the Worlds Collide classes at Ringo Starr’s Ascot studio room. 1979 brought Ford and Hudson’s belated and cynical split at punk as the Monks, and a royalty-earning graph work with ‘Great Legs Pity About The Encounter’. In 1989, Hudson was noticed over the re-formed Strawbs record, Don’t State Goodbye… .