Miss Gardiner interviews Virginia Scott for DECODE Magazine 2006.





Beggars Opera were a Scottish band who formed in late '69. They were an integral part of early 1970's progressive rock music, and a mainstay on the seminal Vertigo label.
Their first album 'Act One' in 1970 has been noted to have pushed classical progressive boundaries that could stand by Emmerson Lake and Palmer's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. They moved on to their second album, 'Water's of Change' which brought the psychedelic sounds of the mellotron played by Virginia Scott, the only female mellotronist around at the time.