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Shortly after recording In Praise of Learning, first Moore and then Blegvad left Henry Cow due of incompatibilities with the other musicians in the group.

Blegvad has confessed that the technical demands of Henry Cow's music were beyond him (" It was discovered – not to my surprise – that I actually couldn't play Henry Cow music.

The chords and the time signatures were too complicated.

And ... just generally, Anthony and I felt kinda lost ...") but it was also clear that there were crucial differences in artistic approach.

Blegvad would later reveal ( in an interview for the Hearsay fanzine ) that " the piece that got me kicked out was " Living in the Heart of the Beast ".

I was assigned the task for the collective to come up with suitable verbals, and I wrote two verses about a woman throwing raisins at a pile of bones.

Tim Hodgkinson just said, I'm sorry, this is not at all what we want.

And he wrote reams of this political tirade.

I admired his passion and application but it left me cold.

I am to my bones a flippant individual, I don't know why I was created thus or what I'm trying to deny, but it clashed with the extreme seriousness.

People who take themselves very seriously make me giggle, unless they're pointing a weapon at me or my loved ones ".

Due to Krause's decision to remain with Henry Cow, Slapp Happy dissolved and the three members went their separate ways ( although the group would periodically reunite in 1982 – 1983, 1991, 1997 and 2000 ).