Jut been reading a great book, Erebus, by Michael Palin, about one of the two ships in the doomed expedition i 1875, to find the North West Passage, when all disappeared without trace.
I recommend this book, it's a compelling read.
Here's Pentangle's, featuring Burt Jansch, version of the famous folk song, Lord Franklin, about this expedition.
Just listened to one of the BBC R4 programmes marking Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, in which Martin Carthy tells of Dylan walking into a London pub in the early 60's, when Carthy played Lord Franklin, and then Dylan 'borrowed' the tune for one of his own songs -Bob Dylan's Dream.
Here, a rare live version of Dylan performing this.
A bloke who I met on the train trip back from our famous Cup win at Carlisle in '75, on our road to the Final, happened to stand next to me in the Enclosure soon after, and he sold/gave me a spare ticket to see Black Sabbath at Hammersmith Odeon, who i'd hardly even heard of, but it was an unforgettable experience.. Great band.
