Grace Darling

"Grace Darling" is a song by English band Strawbs, featured on their 1975 album Ghosts. Recording The track was recorded in the chapel of the Charterhouse School, which the members of the band Genesis had attended in the 1960s, and which Strawbs' producer at the time, Tom Allom, had also attended. According to Dave Cousins, the chapel's pipe organ was used, played by Alastair Ross, choirmaster and organist of St Lawrence's Church, West Wycombe; the band's keyboardist, John Hawken, chose not play on the recording, as he was not used to the very noticeable delay that falls between the pressing of a key on a pipe organ and the sounding of the corresponding note. During the recording of the album, Cousins fell ill and spent some time in hospital, returning to the studio after a lumbar puncture to record his vocals lying on the studio floor.