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Dave Ling

“Various line-ups sprang into existence just because someone said, ‘I’ll be your guitarist – I’ve got money.’ They felt like drunken shags. I gave in, but I hated myself for it”: When Robert John Godfrey rebuilt The Enid after 21 wasted years

The Enid 2010.

After a winter of discontent that lasted over two decades, symphonic rock pioneers The Enid sprang back into life in 2010 with a new line-up, a new album and a new attitude. Mastermind Robert John Godfrey talked Prog through some of the previous highs and lows.

Like most people at his stage in their lives, Robert John Godfrey is relatively comfortable in his own skin. Having been out of the spotlight for more than two decades, he’s come to terms with the person that the past 63 years have contrived to make him – via the ups and downs of his group’s career and the shortcomings of a less than balanced personality.

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