Ed Welch slipped into the music world under an alias — his debut single released while at Trinity College London under the name "Edgar Willis," because the faculty frowned on students making records. The man behind the mask soon landed at United Artists, writing songs good enough for Cilla Black, Shirley Bassey, and Matt Monro to claim as their own. In 1971, Welch stepped out front with Clowns, co-written with folk legend Tom Paxton and backed by Cozy Powell and Michael de Albuquerque — baroque pop at its most inviting: orchestral, hook-filled, and impossibly warm. It should have made him a household name. Instead, Welch became a household sound — the Blockbusters theme, Spike Milligan collaborations, Thomas the Tank Engine, One Foot in the Grave. Think Like A Key Music's remastered reissue — expanded with two post-album singles — is the long-overdue resurrection of a debut buried under its creator's own brilliance. The clown finally gets his curtain call.