The Wind in the Willows (band) The Wind in the Willows (band) The Wind in the Willows was an American band which included Deborah Harry as a back-up vocalist. The band took its name from British writer Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows", a classic of children's literature. The band's only album, the self-titled "The Wind in the Willows" (1968, Capitol Records LP2956), grazed the charts at #195. The band broke up shortly after failing to achieve commercial success or critical acclaim. The following year Artie Kornfeld, the producer of the album, went on to be the music producer of the Woodstock festival in 1969.
The Wind in the Willows the animal characters in his book do – as the book says, "simply messing about in boats" – and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book. The novel was in its 31st printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as "Toad of Toad Hall" in 1929. 1946 saw the first of several film adaptions. In 2003, "The Wind in the Willows" was listed at number 16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read. More than a century after its original publication, it was adapted