The Fivepenny Piece

The Fivepenny Piece was -- not surprisingly -- a quintet from Lancashire who saw considerable success in England during the 1970s, as part of the television pop/rock scene; they sounded like a '70s version of the Seekers with more of a pop bent, and for their trouble, they got to record a baker's dozen of LPs and a comparable string of singles across the decade. And although none of the latter were chart hits, they still managed to sell a lot of albums, mostly by virtue of their television exposure. They'd started with far less ambitious goals in mind -- indeed, with no real g...