Fact · Berneray
A cult folk album was written on a Berneray croft
Vashti Bunyan wrote much of Just Another Diamond Day, the 1970 folk album that became a cult classic decades later, while living on a croft on Berneray. Fish, the former Marillion singer, has a croft on the island too.
Berneray attracts people who want to disappear for a while. The English singer Vashti Bunyan wrote much of her debut album Just Another Diamond Day while living in a croft on the island at the end of the 1960s; ignored on release in 1970, it was rediscovered thirty years later and is now a cult classic. The Scottish singer Fish, formerly of Marillion, owns a croft on Berneray and announced plans to move there permanently on retiring from music. Most people on the island still speak Gaelic, many as a first language.
Sources / notes: Wikipedia: Berneray, North Uist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berneray,_North_Uist