TIM HART, who founded the successful folk-rock group Steeleye Span after an upbringing in St Albans, has died at the age of 61.
Although born in Lincoln in 1948, he grew up in St Albans, where his father was a vicar, studied at St Albans School, and met the group's lead singer Maddie Prior at a local folk club in 1965.
Playing guitar, banjo and dulcimer, he contributed to the successful albums Folk Songs of Olde England(Volumes One and Two) taking lead vocals on some of the best-known songs.
He also wrote poetic sleeve notes, read comic poems on stage and sang romantic duets with Maddie Prior.
After leaving Steeleye Span in 1982 he had some success as a photographer and moved to Gomera in the Canary Islands, where he died of lung cancer on December 24.
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