Formed in the early seventies as a British progressive rock quartet, Fuzzy Duck took their name from a popular verbal inversion of the period. The group’s roster included Paul Francis on drums, Mick Hawksworth on bass, Roy Sharland on organ, and Garth Watt-Roy on guitar and vocals. Hawksworth had previously performed with Andromeda and Five Day Week Straw People, Sharland had belonged to Spice and collaborated with Arthur Brown, and Watt-Roy had been part of Greatest Show On Earth. For Mam Records the band issued one self-titled album plus the singles ‘Double Time Woman’ and ‘Big Brass Band’. Although stronger musically than lyrically, the LP appeared in a run of only five hundred copies whose cover showed a duck wearing an ‘Afro hairstyle’. Long prized by progressive rock collectors, the album was re-released by Repertoire Records in 1993.
