This website honours Beggars Opera from Glasgow, Scotland's only Classical Progressive Rock Band ever!
In the early 70's they recorded 4 albums for the now legendary Vertigo label.
Their electrifying and unforgettable live performances at home and abroad, earned them major success in Germany, with the super hit Time Machine from their Waters of Change album of 1971.

Had you been there at that time, you would have seen and heard

Ricky Gardiner's sonorous and surreal guitar climbs and bends









Alan Park's lavish organ psychedelia and phenomenal keyboard dexterity










Virginia Scott's ethereal mellotronic orchestration with subliminal song and rhyme










Gordon Sellar's powerful and dynamic, succinct bass growl










Raymond Wilson's pounding and relentless driving drum engine and kilt and










Martin Griffith's 'fa la la' minstrel voiced strobe figurine, air conducting the apocalypse!


Read on for







THE history of Beggars Opera.