Monmouthshire

Regardless of distractions, the band was well prepared for the sessions, having decamped for a month during the summer to rehearse in a barn that would become Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, before an extensive three-week writing and rehearsing session in a rented house.

From August to September 1975, they recorded at Rockfield in Monmouthshire.

where several members introduced a variety of instruments.

John Deacon played Rhodes piano, Roger Taylor, timpani, and Brian May, harp.

Learn to do anything, as long as I can earn me enough to keep a roof over me head and food in me stomach.

It was at lunchtime yesterday that I first came to this blasted town of Newport in Monmouthshire and took myself to the nearest inn to see about a bite for the inner man.

I stood at the doorway looking in, and who do I see but me old friend and pal Grigsby, the greatest thief what ever lived.

Yes, it was Grigsby, looking as if he'd never slept on a London bench in his life, eating as full and hearty a meal as I've ever seen.

But yeah, I ended up playing for the Blind or Bluebirds and we had great success.

We were Monmouthshire champions several times.

And I always say to people that playing soccer, there was no mini rugby in my day, playing soccer taught you to lift your head up a little bit and be aware of where people were in space, you know? And I think it made me a better rugby player when I went on to play rugby.

Well, I was speaking to somebody yesterday who spoke very highly of you.

Yeah, she was a fantastic lady.

she sort of taught me how to sidestep a little bit and move away from trouble, you know, and I think that got me a few tries along the way from being able to do that.

Growing up in Gwent, well, that's all it was, was rugby, you know, it was heavy industry, blue collar, you know, typical Monmouthshire, coal mining valleys, you know, everyone sort of worked locally in the steelworks, the coal mines, the factories locally.

And when I went on to play first class rugby, all the clubs locally would come and sort of knock on my door and sit in my front room.

Oh, am I going to cry?

So I live in an area in Monmouthshire.

Yeah.

And a very famous cider producer that's found in every supermarket.

In order therefore to make the experiment more simple and workable at all temperatures, a sample of coal was selected, which should be perfectly manageable and readily consumed.

Appended is an analysis of the coal employed from Ebuvale, Monmouthshire.

Composition percent.

Carbon, 88.3. Hydrogen, 5.08.

Yeah.

To take over, well, the Fox Hunter in Nanty Dairy, Monmouthshire, near Abergavenny.

Yeah.

But am I right in saying that the pub before you take it over was doing five pound sort of frozen ready meal lasagnas?