Classic Rock

WISHING WELL

his year marks the golden 50th anniversary of several much-loved rock acts, among them Queen, Judas Priest and Uriah Heep. During the same time period Wishbone Ash have seen more than 20 band members go through the exit door (among them founder member Martin Turner, John Wetton, Laurie Wisefield and Trevor Bolder), leaving guitarist/vocalist Andy Powell the only original member across half a century filled with many highs (1972’s was voted album of the year by readers of both and ) and lows (four years later, was a nadir, dismissed by Martin Turner, bassist/vocalist on it, as “a crock of shit”).

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