Quotes About American tours

Because of the subsequent commercial impact of Steeleye Span – sell-out American tours, their own TV series and two enormous hit singles – it's easy to think of the group as representing all the crass aspects of British folk music. But the pizzazz of the 1970s has eclipsed the raw thrills of Hark! The Village Wait and Please to See the King, two hungry-sounding albums that held out a tantalising vision of a potential pan-British music that never materialised.

We once did six tours of America in 15 months.