“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

Stackridge’s 1973 album The Man In The Bowler Hat marked a significant moment for the Bristol pop-prog band, who had been compared with a version of The Beatles that had never split up. The group worked with their production hero George Martin, an experience presented as both remarkable and surreal,