I first heard the album Odessa at New Year 1978, and it filled me with excitement immediately. Its eponymous title track was no.1 in my many (unsent, but circulated within a very small, select group) Radio Caroline Personal Top 30 listings.
What attracted me too was the coincidence that the opening lines of my then favourite song - "Fourteenth of February, eighteen ninety nine, the British ship Veronica was lost without a sign" - so closely echoed my then favourite film, Picnic at Hanging Rock, set exactly 12 months later, on Valentine's Day 1900.