When I was 18 back in 1967 I was desperate to get hold of Roy’s first album – Sophisticated Beggar. Roy had been hawking it around at his gigs but had just sold the last one. I think they’d only press 400. There were none left. So Roy lent me his own copy! (Just imagine! – The only copy he had!)
I remember that Roy had drawn in a moustache with a felt-tip.
I was lucky. One turned up a few week’s later in one of the second-hand record shops I used to browse through. Although it was a hefty £4 (a fortune for an impoverished student living off one meal a day of pig’s head soup) I snapped it up.
Here I am, some fifty seven years later, holding that album. A treasured copy.
The cover artwork was Lon Goddard. He played some guitar on the album too!
