CHRONOLOGY  1959 - 1999

1959

GODFREY attends Finchden Manor experimental school, where The Enid will later be formed. The approach of the school has a profound effect on Godfrey and other Enid members.

1965

GODFREY goes to the Royal College of Music to study classical piano. He later attends the Royal Academy of Music. He establishes a friendship with German composer Hans Werner Henze and also becomes acquainted with Michael Tippett and Benjamin Brittan.

1969

THE SIXTIES hippy revolution is underway. Godfrey drops out and meets Barclay James Harvest, then a new band, and joins them as resident musical director, living with the band in a remote farmhouse in Yorkshire.

He is responsible for their work with full symphony orchestra, and develops songs like Dark Now My Sky and Mockingbird into the large-scale orchestral works which were the hallmark of the band's early albums. The band tours with Godfrey conducting their orchestra, playing such venues as the Royal Albert Hall in London.

1972

SEEKING a more permanent vehicle for his own compositions, Godfrey leaves Barclay James Harvest.