Shelleyan Orphan

Shelleyan Orphan

Shelleyan Orphan

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Shelleyan Orphan

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It was in 1980 that Caroline Crawley (vocals/clarinet) and Jemaur Tayle (acoustic guitar/vocals) first met in their home-town of Bournemouth, England, and discovered they had a mutual appreciation of the poet Shelley. Consequently they took the name of their band from his poem ‘Spirit Of Solitude'. Neither of them could read or write music, or play any of their chosen instruments so, in 1982, Crawley quit her ‘A' Level studies and they moved to London in search of a string section and oboist, with the intention of using these traditionally classical instruments along with the ...
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