“I’m at work in the petrol station and I read that the album is at No. 23. I’d last heard it at a playback in George Martin’s studio”: Stackridge’s Monty Python-like experience with The Man In The Bowler Hat

“I’m at work in the petrol station and I read that the album is at No. 23. I’d last heard it at a playback in George Martin’s studio”: Stackridge’s Monty Python-like experience with The Man In The Bowler Hat

In 1973, with their music already labelled as ‘what The Beatles might have done if they hadn’t split up,’ cheeky Bristol prog band Stackridge found themselves in a studio with their production hero George Martin. In 2024 we asked: were they about to lose their heads for The Man In The Bowler Hat?Rising from the ashes of the Goon Show-inspired Griptyte Thynne and morphing from Stackridge Lemon to just Stackridge, by 1973 the knockabout Bristol po…