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Cry Freedom and enjoy the glories of London's Freedom Pass - free travel on buses, trains, underground overground and docklands light railway (&trams!). Written in joyous ZZTop meets Hawkwind style.

A good old-fashioned rock'n'roll song with distorted guitars and Jon Garvey's great saxophone riffs.

After an introductory couplet, this is a blues that starts with Mary Davies' piano, gains mandolin and then gets an almost Moorish kick once Jon Garvey's great saxophone breaks loose...

A bit early 60s poppy this one (did Steve really suggest Freddie and the Dreamers?)... Another tale of blighted love but with some nice lead guitar and an (almost) angelic choir at the end...

An acoustic guitar-based folk song with a chunky riff on the bass strings. The lead guitar on the instrumental verse is underlain by manipulated feedback though!

A soft-rock folky sort of song...

An upbeat finger-picked guitar folksong with mandolin break.

An eclectic and philosophical number.. starts off slow with a string quartet and then slips into soft reggae - with the string quartet rejoining later.

A folk-rock ballad that tells a story - but with fuzz guitar for emphasis... see the accompanying video

This has a laid-back, jazzy feel - 'til the oompah band kicks in in the middle... With Mary Davies on piano.

Another folky guitar/piano song with an acoustic lead...Mary Davies on piano again.

A folky guitar start - but then that oompah band comes creeping in

This song of love and the recapturing of youthful passion starts as a rough guitar piece then goes all lush orchestral.

A love song arranged it for guitar, Gypsy violin and accordion.