Lindisfarne "Meet Me on the Corner"...

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Lindisfarne were a British folk/rock group established in 1970.
The group began as the Downtown Faction, but soon changed their name to Brethren. In 1968, after hearing of an American group of the same name, they were rechristened Lindisfarne after the island of that name off the Northumbrian coast.

In 1970 Tony Stratton-Smith signed them to Charisma Records and their debut album Nicely Out of Tune (so named because the group claimed they were 'nicely out of tune' with other prevailing musical trends at the time) was released, defining their mixture of bright harmony and rollicking folk rock. Both singles released from the album, "Clear White Light" and "Lady Eleanor", failed to chart, as did the album itself at first. Nonetheless, the band obtained a strong following from its popular live concerts.

Their second album, the Bob Johnston-produced Fog on the Tyne, followed in 1971 and began their commercial success, charting late in 1971 and reaching No. 1 the following year. Their profile was also raised when Jackson played mandolin on Rod Stewart's breakthrough hit single "Maggie May", even though Stewart only credited him on the sleeve of the parent album Every Picture Tells a Story as "the mandolin player in Lindisfarne. The name slips my mind." For years the legend persisted that disc jockey John Peel had played the mandolin part, solely as he was invited to mime it on Top of the Pops.

Top 10 singles "Meet me on the Corner", written by Clements, and a re-release of "Lady Eleanor", followed in 1972, and Nicely Out Of Tune belatedly made the Top 10. The band obtained a huge media following, with some calling Hull the greatest songwriter since Bob Dylan, and the band was even referred to as the "1970s Beatles". By the summer of 1972 they were one of the biggest names in British rock music, stealing the show at festivals and selling out live dates wherever they played.

At the pinnacle of their success, they recorded their third album, Dingly Dell, which featured strings arranged by Laidlaw's brother Paul on several tracks. They were unhappy with the initial production, and remixed it themselves. It was released in September 1972 in a plain beige cardboard sleeve, to demonstrate to fans that it was the music which mattered. Some overseas markets insisted on redesigning it with a photo of the band instead, the design which has since been used for the CD reissue. Though it entered the Top 10 in the first week of release, it received lukewarm reviews; the ecologically-themed single "All Fall Down" was a Top 40 hit

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