In the evening, after we'd done the pictures, they played in the front room, jamming on the Tim Rose song 'Morning Dew'. Linda Eastman: "They seemed very happy there. They had oriental rugs on the floor but otherwise it was quite bare, almost spartan, like a camp rather than a home. You came upon a deeply-rutted chalk track, and hidden in the centre of a copse of hazelnut and pine trees was a two-storey wisteria-draped, white brick dwelling with a slate roof and a squat red chimney."ĭavid Dalton (journalist): "There were beehives, and the ground in front of the cottage was strewn with boxes, bags of cement, a brass bedstead, newspapers, an old cartwheel, cans of paint and a big psychotic-looking dog leashed to the fence."Ĭhris Welch: "Including the kitchen, there were three rooms downstairs and four bedrooms upstairs. Timothy White (journalist): " Mr Fantasy was the first album they worked on there, and the song 'House for Everyone' is about the cottage. It was a cold but beautiful day, and all the trees were blooming, so I did the pictures outside, starting with them running towards me down the slope behind the cottage." He had left The Spencer Davis Group and moved to the cottage, but Traffic hadn't been publicly announced yet, so I got the opportunity of doing their first pictures. Linda Eastman (photographer, now Linda McCartney): "I came to England in 1967 to do a book of rock photographs and I was a huge Winwood fan so I wanted to do him. He rented them this cottage with roses rounf the door for 5 pounds a week." It was on Sheepcott Farm, which belonged to a wealthy landowner and socialite, William Piggott-Brown, who part-owned Island Records with Chris Blackwell. My dad warned me to keep away from them because of the sex and drugs and that."Ĭhris Welch (journalist): "It was the first 'getting our heads together in the country' cottage. Whenever I saw them coming, I'd take off my glasses and hide them under the counter. My dad reckoned they were a sweaty, smelly lot, but I got such a crush on Chris. Chris Wood had these high-heeled boots painted purple. I worked in the village shop where they came every day to collect their letters.
Everybody was very worried about it at first. Rosie Roper (villager): "I was 15 when Traffic arrived in the village.
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