Rod Edwards joined Marianne and Dave and the group 'Jade' was formed. Rod Edwards, played keyboards and bass and had formally played with duo's 'Piccadilly Line' and 'Edwards Hand'Suzie Quatro was another 'up-and-coming' female star in the making and Marianne and Suzie were featured in the same television documentary. (Suzie was in Concert here in Switzerland actually in our local town. Nov 2000. Suzie Quatro gave the world 'Girl Power' long before the 90's and 'Spice Girls') Sir George Martin (Sir. George Martin, the man who produced the records made by the Beatles) asked Marianne to play percussion on a new album he was producing for the group 'Edwards Hand'. 'Jade' recorded, at Trident Studios off Wardour Street in London in March 1970 , the album 'Fly on Strangewings'. Then Dave and Marianne went off to Kenya to do a two week booking in the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi

'Fly on Strangewings' was released in June and it flew straight into 'The Melody Maker' (A British Music News Paper) Album of the month slot. Soon afterwards in July 'Alan's Song' was released as a single.'JADE' Information:

Jade was formed in 1970 to promote the album of songs written by Marian Segal. Jade consisted of: Dave Waite, guitar, banjo and vocals...Rod Edwards: keyboards, bass and vocals.. .and Marian Segal: vocals, guitar and keyboards.

Dave Waite had worked with Marian as a duo in the folk clubs in the U.K. Rod Edwards was part of Marian's management team with Jon Miller and Roger Hand. Rod and Roger had their own recording contract and worked as: 'The Piccadilly Line' and later, 'Edward's Hand'. Shortly after the making of the JADE album in March 1970 at Trident Studios which was situated just off of Wardour Street in St. Anne's Place, Rod Edwards discontinued live work with JADE apart from some television shows which included "The Old Grey Whistle Test". His brother Garry Edwards took over his place for the live work.

The album was released in June of that year with much appraisal from Melody Maker. It became 'Folk album of the month.'  Robin Cable engineered the album and Jon Miller produced it for D.J.M. Records. The other musicians who contributed to the album were as follows:  James Litherland - guitar, played in 'Mogul Thrash' & 'Colosseum'. Pete Sears - bass, played in 'Fleur de lys', 'The Sam Gopal Dream' & 'Jefferson Starship'. Michael Rosen- guitar, played in 'Eclection'. Clem Cattini - drums, played in 'Rumpleskiltskin', 'The Tomados'& 'The Ivy League'.  Terry Cox - drums, played in 'Pentangle'. Pete York - drums, played in 'Hardin & York'. Mick Waller - drums.

The single, "Alan's Song" was released from the album just after the album release.

Photographs for the album were taken on Hampstead Heath: by photographer Barry Wentzell. Cover design by Jon Miller & Jim Goff.

The name JADE was taken and used by a three-girl group in the 1980s, they did chart.

"Fly Me To The North" one of the songs on the album, has been recorded and released by three other artists over the years.

JADE toured America and England to promote the album. The U.K. pressing of the album was a double cover with photos, credits and lyrics inside. It was simply called 'JADE' on the front cover. The U.S.A. pressing on 'Bell Records' was a single album cover with only part of the original photo on the front and the lyrics and credits on the back. The U.S.A. pressing was called: 'Marian Segal with Silver Jade', 'Fly On Strangewings'.