ALFIE SHEPHERD The Wind In The Willows (2009 issue UK 21-track CD album - In 1969, Angel Pavement linchpin Alfie Shepherd took time out from the group's hectic schedule to demo a concept album that he'd written around his favourite childhood story, Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind In The Willows'. Sadly Angel Pavement broke up before they'd had a chance to record the work, which was duly left to gather dust. 40 years later, Alfie's homemade recording of the proposed album finally gains a long-overdue release. Remastered from the original mastertapes and bolstered by a clutch of similarly unissued home demos from the same timeframe, 'The Wind In The Willows' is now revealed as one of the great lost projects of the late 1960s, a thrilling psychedelic pop song-suite bursting with melodic invention, ambitious vocal arrangements and the boundless spirit of adventure that characterised the era, housed in a sealed picture sleeve).