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Blodwyn Pig were a British blues rock musical ensemble, founded in 1968 by guitarist–vocalist–songwriter Mick Abrahams.
With Abrahams and Lancaster in the lead, Blodwyn Pig recorded two albums, Ahead Rings Out in 1969 and Getting to This in 1970. Both reached the Top Ten of the UK Albums Chart and charted in Canada (#74/#38) and the United States (#149/#96); Ahead Rings Out displayed a jazzier turn on the heavy blues–rock that formed the band's core rooted in the British 1960s rhythm and blues scene from which sprang groups like The Yardbirds, Free and eventually Led Zeppelin. Saxophonist–singer Lancaster (who often played two horns at once, like his idol Rahsaan Roland Kirk) was at least as prominent in the mix as Abrahams; some critics thought this contrast bumped the band toward a freer, more experimental sound on the second album.
The single "Summer Day" failed to record chart, but the quartet became something of a favourite on the underground concert circuit.
Abrahams left the band and later developed another band or worked solo. Ex-Yes and future Flash guitarist Peter Banks became one of several guitarists, including Larry Wallis, Rock Family Trees - Motorhead and Pink Fairies - Pete Frame to succeed Abrahams after he left.
Largely due to Abrahams's disillusionment with the business side of music, Blodwyn Pig eventually became an on-again, off-again concern; Lancaster at one point became a record producer, and Pyle eventually joined Savoy Brown and The Kinks. Over the years since their original formation, Blodwyn Pig reformed several times, usually with Abrahams and Lancaster leading the group, and recorded two more albums in the 1990s.
On 19 December 2025, Mick Abrahams died at the age of 82.
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