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English singer-songwriter

Sandy Denny
Denny at Island Records, 1972

Denny at Island Records, 1972
Background information
Birth proper noun Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny
Born (1947-01-06)6 January 1947
Merton Park, London, England
Died 21 Apr 1978(1978-04-21) (anile 31)
Atkinson Morley Infirmary, Wimbledon, England
Genres Folk rock, folk, British folk rock
Occupation(southward) Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar, keyboards
Years active 1965–1978
Labels Island Records
Associated acts Fairport Convention, Strawbs, Fotheringay, The Bunch, Led Zeppelin
Website sandydennyofficial.com

Musical artist

Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English language vocaliser-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock ring Fairport Convention. She has been described as "the pre-eminent British folk stone vocalist".[one]

After briefly working with the Strawbs, Denny joined Fairport Convention in 1968, remaining with them until 1969. She formed the short-lived ring Fotheringay in 1970, before focusing on a solo career. Between 1971 and 1977, Denny released four solo albums: The Northward Star Grassman and the Ravens, Sandy, Like an Former Fashioned Waltz and Rendezvous. She also duetted with Robert Institute on "The Boxing of Evermore" for Led Zeppelin'southward album Led Zeppelin Iv in 1971. Denny died in 1978 at the historic period of 31 due to injuries and health problems related to alcohol abuse.[ii]

Music publications Uncut and Mojo have described Denny as Britain'due south finest female singer-songwriter.[3] [4] Her composition "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" has been recorded past Judy Collins, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, 10,000 Maniacs and Cat Ability. Her recorded work has been the field of study of numerous reissues, forth with a wealth of previously unreleased material which has appeared over the more than than 40 years since her death, including a 19-CD box gear up released in November 2010.

Childhood [edit]

Denny was built-in on 6 January 1947 at Nelson Hospital, Kingston Road, Merton Park, London, to Neil and Edna Denny. She studied classical pianoforte every bit a child.[5]

Her paternal grandfather was from Dundee, and her paternal grandmother was a Scots Gaelic speaker and vocaliser of traditional songs. At an early age Denny showed an interest in singing, although her strict parents were reluctant to believe there was a living to be made from it. She attended Coombe Girls' School in New Malden; after leaving school she began training equally a nurse at the Royal Brompton Hospital.[6]

Early career [edit]

Denny's nursing career proved short-lived. In the meantime she had secured a place on a foundation grade at Kingston College of Art, which she took up in September 1965, becoming involved with the folk guild on campus. Her contemporaries at the college included guitarist and future member of Pentangle, John Renbourn.[6]

Later on her first public advent at the Barge in Kingston upon Thames, Denny began working the folk club circuit in the evenings with an American-influenced repertoire, including songs past Tom Paxton, together with traditional folk songs.[6] Denny fabricated the first of many appearances for the BBC at Cecil Sharp House on 2 December 1966 on the Folk Song Cellar programme where she accompanied herself on two traditional songs: "Fir a Bhata" and "Green Grow the Laurels".

Her earliest professional recordings were made a few months later in mid-1967 for the Saga label,[7] featuring traditional songs and covers of folk contemporaries including her beau of this flow, the American vocalist-songwriter Jackson C. Frank. They were released on the albums Alex Campbell and His Friends and Sandy and Johnny with Johnny Silvo.[eight] These songs were collected on the 1970 anthology It's Sandy Denny where the tracks from Sandy and Johnny had been re-recorded with more accomplished vocals and guitar playing.[8] The complete Saga studio recordings were issued on the 2005 compilation Where The Time Goes.[nine]

By this time, she had abandoned her studies at art college and was devoting herself total-time to music. While she was performing at The Troubadour folk club, a member of the Strawbs heard her, and in 1967, she was invited to join the ring. She recorded one anthology with them in Denmark, which was released belatedly in 1973, credited to Sandy Denny and the Strawbs: All Our Own Work. The album includes an early on solo version of her best-known (and widely recorded) composition, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"[6] A demo of that song found its way into the hands of American singer Judy Collins, who chose to embrace it equally the title track of an album of her ain, released in November 1968, thus giving Denny international exposure as a songwriter before she had become widely known as a singer.[10]

From Fairport to Fotheringay [edit]

Later on making the Saga albums with Alex Campbell and Johnny Silvo, Denny looked for a ring that would permit her to stretch herself every bit a vocalist, reach a wider audience, and have the opportunity to display her songwriting. She said, "I wanted to do something more than with my voice."[11] Subsequently working briefly with the Strawbs, Denny remained unconvinced that they could provide that opportunity, so she ended her relationship with the band.[12]

Fairport Convention conducted auditions in May 1968 for a replacement singer following the departure of Judy Dyble subsequently their debut album, and Denny became the obvious pick. According to group fellow member Simon Nicol, her personality and musicianship fabricated her stand out from the other auditionees "like a clean glass in a sink total of muddy dishes".[13]

Beginning with What We Did on Our Holidays, the outset of three albums she made with the band in the late 1960s, Denny is credited with encouraging Fairport Convention to explore the traditional British folk repertoire, and is thus regarded as a fundamental figure in the development of British folk rock.[2] She brought with her the traditional repertoire she had refined in the clubs, including "A Sailor'south Life" featured on their 2d album together Unhalfbricking. Framing Denny's performance of this song with their own electric improvisations, her bandmates discovered what then proved to be the inspiration for an entire album, the influential Liege & Lief (1969).[xiv]

Denny left Fairport Convention in December 1969 to develop her own songwriting more fully.[6] To this end, she formed her own band, Fotheringay, which included her future husband, Australian Trevor Lucas, formerly of the grouping Eclection.[15]

They created ane self-titled album, which included an eight-minute version of the traditional "Banks of the Nile", and several Denny originals, among them "The Body of water" and "Nothing More than". The latter marked her starting time limerick on the piano, which was to become her primary instrument from and then on. Fotheringay started to record a second album in late 1970, but information technology remained unfinished after Denny announced that she was leaving the group and producer Joe Boyd left to accept upwardly a job at Warner Brothers in California. Denny would later blame Boyd'due south hostility towards the group for its demise.[16]

Solo career and terminal years [edit]

She then turned to recording her first solo album, The N Star Grassman and the Ravens. Released in 1971, it is distinguished by its elusive lyrics and unconventional harmonies. Highlights included "Belatedly November", inspired by a dream and the expiry of Fairport band member Martin Lamble, and "Next Time Around" a cryptogram nigh Jackson C. Frank, ane of her many portraits in song.[17]

Sandy, with a cover photograph past David Bailey, followed in 1972 and was the starting time of her albums to exist produced by Trevor Lucas. As well as introducing eight new original compositions, the album marked her final recording of a traditional vocal, "The Placidity Joys of Brotherhood" (words past Richard Fariña), with Denny's aggressive multi-tracked vocal arrangement inspired by the Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic.

Tune Maker readers twice voted her the "Best British Female Vocalizer", in 1970 and 1971 and, together with contemporaries including Richard Thompson and Ashley Hutchings, she participated in a one-off project called the Bunch to record a collection of stone and roll era standards released under the title of Rock On.

In 1971, Denny duetted with Robert Plant on "The Battle of Evermore", which was included on Led Zeppelin'southward 1971 album (Led Zeppelin Iv); she was the only invitee vocalist ever to appear on a Led Zeppelin album.[13] In 1972 Denny had a small cameo on Lou Reizner'due south symphonic organization of the Who'due south stone opera Tommy. Her cursory advent was at the end of the track "It'due south a Boy", which as well featured vocals from Pete Townshend.

In 1973, she married long-term young man and producer Trevor Lucas and recorded a third solo album, Like an One-time Fashioned Waltz. The songs continued to detail many of her personal preoccupations: loss, loneliness, fright of the dark, the passing of time and the changing seasons.[18] The anthology independent ane of her all-time loved compositions, "Solo", and featured a cover image by Gered Mankowitz.

In 1974, she returned to Fairport Convention (of which her husband was by so a fellow member) for a world tour (captured on the 1974 album Fairport Live Convention) and a studio album, Ascension for the Moon in 1975. Although her development equally a soloist and songwriter had taken her further abroad from the folk roots direction that the band had pursued since Liege & Lief, 7 of the xi tracks on Rising for the Moon were either written or co-written past her.[19]

Denny and Lucas left Fairport Convention at the end of 1975 and embarked on what was to become her final album Rendezvous. Released in 1977, the album sold poorly and Denny was later dropped by Island Records. Having relocated to the village of Byfield in Northamptonshire in the mid-seventies, Denny gave birth to her merely child, a daughter named Georgia, in July 1977.

A Britain bout to promote Rendezvous in autumn 1977 marked her concluding public appearances. The endmost dark at the Royalty Theatre in London on 27 November 1977 was recorded for a alive anthology, Gilded Grit, which, because of technical issues in the recording of the electric guitar, was belatedly released in 1998 afterwards nearly of the guitars had been re-recorded by Jerry Donahue.[20]

Death [edit]

Linda Thompson would later note that Denny "really started going downhill in 1976" and demonstrated increasing levels of both manic and depressive behaviour.[21] Learning that she was pregnant did trivial to mellow Denny's reckless lifestyle, which was heightened by increasing depression, mood swings and the unravelling of her "tumultuous" marriage to Trevor Lucas.[21] She abused drugs and alcohol while significant with her girl, Georgia, who was born prematurely in July 1977.[2] Much like her moods, Denny's interest towards her daughter appeared to oscillate betwixt obsessive and unconcerned; friends recalled both frantic, middle-of-the-dark telephone calls near teething, besides as Denny "crashing the car and leaving the babe in the pub and all sorts of stuff".[two] [21]

A grave covered with emerald-like gravel, with a granite headstone, surrounded by other graves

Friends would after note that Denny had a history of purposely throwing herself off bar stools and down flights of stairs in lodge to become a reaction. Several remembered this behaviour as "Sandy'southward party trick", while Dave Pegg's wife Chris stated, "She certainly did information technology in my business firm and information technology could be a very dramatic gesture, similar self-harming. She could do it without hurting herself usually but I had a feeling there would be one time also many."[22] Those who knew Denny said that her increasing level of booze abuse in the last years of her life led to an increasing number of falls (both accidental and deliberate), resulting in a growing number of injuries.[22]

In late March 1978, while on holiday with her parents and baby Georgia in Cornwall, Denny was injured when she roughshod downwardly a staircase and hit her head on concrete.[23] Following the incident, she suffered from intense headaches; a doctor prescribed her the painkiller dextropropoxyphene, a drug known to have fatal side furnishings when mixed with booze.[2] On one April, several days after the fall in Cornwall, Denny performed a charity concert at Byfield.[23] The last vocal she performed was "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"[22]

At some unknown point during the beginning half of April 1978, Denny suffered however another major fall at her home in Byfield.[22] On xiii April, concerned about his wife's erratic behaviour and fearing for his daughter'south safety, Trevor Lucas left the UK and returned to his native Commonwealth of australia with their kid, leaving Denny without telling her.[2] [24] [25] He sold their Austin Princess car in order to raise funds for the journey.[22]

On discovering Lucas' divergence, Denny went to stay at the home of her friend Miranda Ward. During this time, Denny apparently set upwardly an appointment to speak with a dr. about her headaches, and also intended to go communication about her booze addiction.[26] At some betoken after 8 am on 17 April, Denny savage into a blackout.[ii] [23] Ward was out of the house at the time, and had asked her friend Jon Cole (of the ring The Movies) to bank check in on Denny. Cole entered the home at 3 pm, and found Denny unconscious at the foot of the staircase which led to the second floor of the house.[26] She was rushed by ambulance to Queen Mary's Hospital in nearby Roehampton.[26]

On 19 April, she was transferred to Atkinson Morley Infirmary in Wimbledon.[27] After receiving news that Denny was in a blackout, Lucas returned from Australia. Upon his inflow at the hospital, doctors informed him that Denny was effectively brain-dead and her condition would not amend. He granted their recommendation to plow off life-back up machines; however, simply ten minutes before this was to have identify, at 7:50 pm on 21 April 1978, Sandy Denny died, without regaining consciousness.[26] Her death was ruled to be the result of a traumatic mid-brain bleeding and blunt force trauma to her head.[two] She was 31 years old.

The funeral took identify on 27 April 1978 at Putney Vale Cemetery. After the vicar had read Denny'southward favourite psalm, Psalm 23, a piper played "Flowers of the Forest", a traditional song commemorating the fallen of Flodden Field and one which had appeared on the 1970 Fairport album Full House. The inscription on her headstone reads:

The Lady
Alexandra Elene
MacLean Lucas
(Sandy Denny)
half dozen·i·47 – 21·4·78

Posthumous releases [edit]

Official releases [edit]

Although Denny had a devoted post-obit in her lifetime, she did not achieve mass marketplace success. In the years since her death, her reputation has grown. A iv-album box set up entitled Who Knows Where the Fourth dimension Goes? (1985) was produced by her widower Trevor Lucas and Joe Boyd and included a number of rare and previously unreleased tracks by Denny, either solo or with Fairport Convention (1968, 1969, 1974) and Fotheringay (1970).[28] This was the first public indication that a large enshroud of unreleased material existed. A one-disc subset of these recordings was after issued on CD past Island in 1987 entitled The Best Of Sandy Denny.

In 1987, a compilation of previously unreleased tracks recorded for the BBC past incarnations of Fairport including Denny was released on LP under the title Heyday, which was subsequently released on CD in 2001 and again, with actress tracks, in 2002; all tracks were afterward included, with others, on the 2007 iv-CD box set Fairport Convention Alive at the BBC (see beneath). The initial purpose of this compilation was to document the more than "American" material performed alive by the What We Did on Our Holidays lineup of the ring that never made it to vinyl, while the re-releases added boosted songs equally performed past the Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief lineups.

Also in 1987, a VHS documentary, Information technology All Comes 'Round Again, on Fairport Convention was released[29] which independent excerpts of several audio recordings featuring Denny, plus a single poor-quality video recording of her singing her song "Solo" during her 2d stint with Fairport in 1974, equally filmed by the University of Birmingham's "Guild Goggle box" amateur arrangement. The original record of this recording has apparently been lost; withal, "Like an Onetime Fashioned Waltz" does appear on the DVD documentary Sandy Denny Under Review (see below) and other tracks have been made available via YouTube in very poor quality.

Over the period 1988–1994, the Australian "Friends of Fairport" issued a series of subscriber-only cassette compilations drawing in the master on previously unreleased tapes from Trevor Lucas' collection (as stored in his attic in fact). Attic Tracks (AT) 1 (1988) contained out-takes from Sandy equally well as some Fairport material and a few bizarre extras; AT 2 (1989) contained simply Trevor Lucas material, no Denny; AT 3 (1989) entitled Beginning and Last Tracks comprised 1966–1967 home demos and rare radio tracks, besides as 9 "pre-overdub" songs from Denny'due south last concert at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 27 November 1977 (a partial culling to the later, overdubbed CD release Gold Grit), and AT 4 (1994): Together Once again comprised one side of Lucas and the other of Denny in the class of more than domicile demos, studio outtakes, and 4 tracks from a 1973 BBC radio concert. A cut-downward version of these tracks (18 songs) was subsequently compiled for CD release by the Australian label Raven Records in 1995 called Sandy Denny, Trevor Lucas and Friends: The Attic Tracks 1972–1984.[30]

In 1991, Joe Boyd issued a new version of Denny'due south All Our Ain Piece of work album with the Strawbs, called Sandy Denny and the Strawbs, on his Hannibal Records label. The anthology had strings added to some tracks, including "Who Knows Where the Fourth dimension Goes?" and farther tracks with Denny on atomic number 82 vocal.

In 1997, a one-disc compilation of Denny's solo BBC recordings was released equally The BBC Sessions 1971–1973 on Foreign Fruit Records. Due to rights issues it was withdrawn on the twenty-four hours of release, thereby creating a highly collectible disc (up until the release of the comprehensive Alive at the BBC box set in 2007). This release was followed in 1998 when Denny'due south last operation at the Royalty Theatre, entitled Gold Dust, was issued on CD, following a degree of re-recording and overdubbing of selected backing parts to replace reportedly unsatisfactory originals.

In 1999, a single-disc compilation, Listen Listen – An Introduction to Sandy Denny, was released on Island Records comprising 17 previously released tracks taken from her four Island solo albums.[31]

No More Distressing Refrains: The Album was released by Universal Records in 2000. When first released, this compilation had several rare tracks, including "The Ballad of Easy Passenger" from the Liege and Lief sessions, "Learning the Game" and "When Will I Be Loved" from the Bunch album Rock On, "Here in Silence" and "Human being of Atomic number 26" from the Pass of Artillery soundtrack, and a previously unissued demo of "Stranger to Himself".

In 2002, a previously unreleased, 2-CD live US concert recording by Fairport Convention from 1974 featuring Denny was released on the Burning Airlines characterization. Entitled Earlier The Moon, it originated from a radio circulate from Ebbets Field in Denver, Colorado, on 23/24 May 1974. The second disc was a limited release bonus with the original release comprising the 2nd prepare from the same concert. This recording was re-released in shortened grade every bit a single disc in 2011 on the Information technology'due south About Music label entitled Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny: Ebbets Field 1974.

Besides in 2002, the American A&M Records issued a budget-price "20th Century Masters" compilation called The Best of Sandy Denny with 10 tracks all available on Denny'due south studio albums.

In 2004 a second comprehensive five-CD box prepare was released on the Fledg'ling record label called A Boxful of Treasures [32] that included many unreleased recordings, in particular a whole disc of audio-visual demos, many recorded at her home in Byfield that was highly prized amongst fans and critics akin, who had long asserted that her solo performances showed her work in its best light, revealing the truthful quality of her vocal style and compositions. Also in 2004, the Spectrum label issued a sixteen-runway compilation of previously released material entitled The Collection: Chronological Covers & Concert Classics, including a mix of studio recordings and live excerpts from the Gilt Dust Royalty concert.

In 2005, remastered versions of all Denny'southward solo albums came out with bonus tracks. Likewise in 2005, a unmarried CD compilation entitled Where the Fourth dimension Goes: Sandy '67 was released on Castle Music containing all of Saga's Denny album tracks (including the culling recordings on Information technology's Sandy Denny), together with 2 self accompanied tracks from Denny's recordings with the Strawbs.[33]

A DVD documentary entitled Sandy Denny Nether Review was released on the Sexy Intellectual characterization in 2006 which contained interviews with her contemporaries plus brief excerpts from her audio recordings, plus some short video clips including two of the poor quality video recordings with Fairport from Birmingham Academy (details given to a higher place), two with Fotheringay from German Telly's Crush-Club (further details given below), and 3 solo excerpts from the only surviving BBC footage on One In Ten (details as given in the next item).

A four-disc box prepare, Sandy Denny Alive at the BBC, came out in September 2007 containing (about) all of the known solo recordings made past Denny for that Britain broadcaster including two complete concerts, one at the Paris Theatre in 1972 and one recorded for Sounds on Sunday in 1973, plus a range of other material spanning the years 1966–1973.[34] Disc iii of this set was a DVD containing surviving TV footage from a 1971 BBC One in X session comprising solo performances by Denny of "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens", "Crazy Lady Blues" and "Late November", forth with digitised excerpts from her diaries, rare photos and a discography. A 1-disc subset of this box set up entitled The All-time of the BBC Recordings was later released in 2008.

A companion box fix, Fairport Convention Alive at the BBC, too came out in 2007 and covered equivalent live recordings by Fairport over the period 1968–1974, of which the first two discs (1968–1970) contain examples from Denny's fourth dimension with that grouping.

In 2008, Jerry Donahue completed the unfinished 2d Fotheringay album begun in the autumn of 1970. It was released to general acclaim[35] as Fotheringay ii and contained some notable Denny performances, in particular earlier versions of two Denny compositions, "Late November" and "John the Gun", and performances of the traditional songs "Gypsy Davey" and "Wild Mountain Thyme". Besides in 2008, Island Remasters issued a double CD entitled The Music Weaver (Sandy Denny Remembered) which contained a mix of amend known tracks and less well known demos and live recordings, previously released but not in companion with studio sessions. This compilation is also one of the very few to contain the Led Zeppelin track "The Boxing Of Evermore" which features a rare guest advent past Denny.

In 2010, a large 19-CD retrospective box set, simply titled Sandy Denny, was released by Universal/Island Records in a limited edition of 3,000. Information technology contained Denny'due south unabridged catalogue of studio recordings, including her work with the Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and as a solo creative person. The compilation too included a large number of outtakes, demos, alive recordings, radio sessions and interviews.[36] The box fix was released to skilful reviews, including a 5-star review in Uncut [37] and a four-star review in The Guardian.[38]

In late 2010, Thea Gilmore was commissioned by Denny's estate, in conjunction with Island Records, to write melodies to unrecorded lyrics found in Denny's papers. The resulting album, Don't Stop Singing,[39] was released in November 2011 to mostly skillful notices, including 4-star reviews in The Independent [40] and The Guardian [41] amidst others. On 21 Apr 2012, the single "London" was released as an exclusive Record Store Twenty-four hours 7″ single.[42]

Farther recordings were released in 2011, including a German recording of Fotheringay in concert released as Essen 1970 [43] on the Garden of Delights characterization. The functioning was remastered by original band member Jerry Donahue. This release was followed by 19 Rupert Street, a domicile recording of a rehearsal featuring Sandy and Alex Campbell recorded at his apartment in Baronial 1967. This release is notable for the fact that Sandy performs a number of tracks that are not available in any other versions, including a cover of "Fairytale Lullaby" by John Martyn.[44] This CD was put out by Sandy's former Strawbs bandmate Dave Cousins on his Witchwood label.

Two-disc "Deluxe Editions" of Denny's anthology reissues appeared in 2011–2012[45] [46] with additional tracks; the 2012 Deluxe Edition of Sandy included a previously unreleased eight-vocal solo set from her 1973 U.S. tour recorded at Ebbet's Field in Denver, Colorado. A similar ii-disc reissue of Fairport Convention's Ascent for the Moon also included, for the first time, the complete 1974 50.A. Troubadour performance of Fairport with Denny dorsum on board, prior to the official announcement of her re-joining the grouping.

On account of unprecedented demand for, and exhaustion of supply of the express edition 19-CD set cited in a higher place, in October 2012 a express edition 4-CD version was released entitled The Notes and The Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities, containing "75 songs that correspond the cream of the rarities, demos and outtakes from the box set".[47] Limited to iii,500 copies, this compilation is also at present out-of-print.

In 2013, Spectrum records issued a single-disc CD entitled The Lady – The Essential Sandy Denny that comprised fifteen previously issued tracks, by and large from Denny's well known albums.

2014 saw the release of another Fairport alive U.S. radio broadcast from their 1974 tour with Denny, on RockBeat Records, entitled Live 1974 (My Father's Place), comprising xi live tracks, nearly featuring Denny, recorded at the New York rock gild My Father'south Identify.

A four-disc Fotheringay retrospective, Zippo More than: The Collected Fotheringay, was released on thirty March 2015. This is the well-nigh comprehensive compilation of the group's recordings, and contains, in addition to all the tracks on Fotheringay and Fotheringay 2 as both last studio versions and demos/alternate takes, the consummate live concert fix from Rotterdam in 1970 (including several previously unreleased tracks), seven Fotheringay tracks recorded in session for BBC radio (which had previously circulated only as bootlegs), plus a DVD disc containing four performances by Fotheringay recorded for the German Beat-Guild Idiot box serial in 1970, which considerably augment the otherwise sparse known Tv footage of Denny in particular.

May 2016 saw the release of a ii-CD compilation, I've Ever Kept A Unicorn – The Audio-visual Sandy Denny which collected together many previously released, but dispersed, acoustic and/or demo versions of songs improve known from their album counterparts, besides as three previously unreleased demos (with Linda Thompson, at the time Linda Peters) from 1972's Rock On sessions by i-off band The Agglomeration.

A seven-CD box set by Fairport Convention entitled Come All Ye – The First 10 Years was released in July 2017 and contains a small number of boosted, previously unreleased demos and alternate takes featuring Denny during her first tenure with the band over the menstruation 1968–1969. Tracks not previously bachelor include versions of Joni Mitchell'due south Eastern Pelting, an a capella version of Nottamun Boondocks, alternative takes of Autopsy and Who Knows Where the Time Goes, and a rehearsal version of The Deserter.

Unofficial releases and audience tapes [edit]

In improver to the authorised cloth listed above, a number unofficial/unauthorised compilations be plus a range of audience recordings of varying quality, none of which would likely encounter the calorie-free of twenty-four hour period every bit commercial issues simply are of interest to a sector of Denny's audience on either historic or aesthetic grounds, frequently providing alternative views of songs known otherwise just from their commercially released versions. The first available unauthorised/bootleg CDs bachelor in the 1980s and 1990s comprised principally off-air and other obscure material nether such titles every bit Borrowed Thyme, Poems from Alexandra, Dark the Nighttime, Wild Mountain Thyme and I Terminal Pitiful Refrain; such compilations are now largely superseded by the subsequent availability of almost of the off-air material in much better quality as official releases as described above.

Of more than enduring interest are audience tapes of shows of which no "official" tapes survive. These include some early on shows by Fairport Convention; a functioning by Fotheringay at the 1970 10th National Jazz and Blues Festival, held at Plumpton Race Track, Streat, E Sussex, England; "solo" shows by Denny (on occasion with a minor band including, among others, Richard Thompson) at the 1971 Lincoln Folk Festival and at the Eltham Well Hall Open Theatre in 1972; performances from York University and Guildhall, Newcastle upon Tyne, too in 1972; an early 1972 U.S. performance from The Bitter End in New York; and several sets (Birmingham and Croydon) from her terminal 1977 tour in addition to the officially released Gilt Dust anthology; plus quite a large number of recordings strongly featuring Denny as role of the re-formed Fairport Convention over the period 1974–1975. The majority of these can be fairly easily located via relevant net searches and, in improver, can exist readily downloaded from archival music servers such as Sugarmegs (Sandy Denny concerts listed nether "S": SugarMegs Streaming Server, Fairport and Fotheringay nether "F": SugarMegs Streaming Server). A provisional list of such recordings as are known to be, with details on where each can exist accessed, is bachelor here.

Legacy [edit]

Estate and family [edit]

After relocating to Commonwealth of australia and remarrying, Trevor Lucas died of a heart assault in 1989. Denny's estate is now managed by Lucas' widow, Elizabeth Hurtt-Lucas.[24] A number of otherwise unreleased recordings of Sandy Denny from his collection accept afterward been the basis for posthumous releases of Denny'southward work including those on The Cranium Tracks and elsewhere.

Sandy Denny's daughter, Georgia, has rarely spoken almost her mother in a public forum and in the mid-2000s declined an invitation to write the liner notes for Sandy Denny Alive at the BBC.[24] All the same, in 2006 she flew to U.k. from Australia to take on her mother's behalf the BBC Radio ii Folk Awards award for Most Influential Folk Album of All Fourth dimension, which was given for Fairport Convention'south Liege and Lief.[48] Georgia gave birth to twin daughters on 29 Apr 1997, and a tribute album, Georgia on Our Mind, featuring many of Sandy Denny's quondam bandmates and friends, was compiled in the children's honour.[49] She besides administers a Facebook page "Sandy Denny and Family" dedicated to her mother's memory and more recently, under the name Georgia Katt, has released some of her ain DJ-based music.[50]

Tributes [edit]

Since her expiry, many tributes have been made to Denny, both in music and elsewhere. Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention recorded the tribute "Song for Sandy" on his 1983 solo album The Cocktail Cowboy Goes Information technology Alone. Dave Cousins of the Strawbs wrote "Ringing Downwardly the Years" in memory of Denny shortly subsequently her death. Songs more specific to the death were Bert Jansch's "Where Did My Life Go" and Richard Thompson'due south "Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?" Fellow Brit folk pioneers Spriguns changed the title of their 1978 album to Magic Lady after hearing of Denny'southward death while recording.[51] In 1998, a diversity of Daylily was named after her.[52] [53]

Denny'southward songs have been covered past numerous artists in the years since her expiry. Some of the notable acts to accept covered her music include Yo La Tengo,[54] old Marillion frontman Fish, who covered "Solo" on his anthology Songs from the Mirror, Cat Ability, Judy Collins, Nanci Griffith and Nina Simone. Kate Bush mentioned Denny in the lyric of "Blow Abroad (For Pecker)", as one of the musicians to greet Nib in Heaven. "Accident Away (For Neb)" is the tertiary track on Bush's 1980 album Never for Ever. In 1984, Clann Eadair released the single "A tribute to Sandy Denny", featuring Phil Lynott on vocals.

Several radio specials have been produced virtually Denny's life and music, including BBC Radio 2's The Sandy Denny Story: Who Knows Where the Time Goes. In 2007, Denny'due south song "Who Knows Where the Fourth dimension Goes?" too received BBC Radio ii's 2007 Folk Accolade for "Favourite Folk Rail of All Fourth dimension".[55] In 2010, she was recognized past NPR in their fifty Bully Voices special serial.[56]

In April 2008, a tribute concert was held at The Troubadour in London, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Denny'southward death. Those taking office included Martin Carthy, Linda Thompson and Joe Boyd.[57]

A more all-encompassing tribute was given afterward that yr in Dec at the Southbank in the Queen Elizabeth Hall chosen The Lady: A Tribute to Sandy Denny with a ring equanimous of members of Bellowhead, the evening featured a mix of young folk acts like Jim Moray and Lisa Knapp aslope those that had known and worked with Denny such as Dave Swarbrick and Jerry Donahue. These acts were joined by performers from exterior the globe of folk like PP Arnold and Marc Almond. The concert, which primarily featured songs written by Denny, received a 4-star review in The Guardian.[58] In May 2012 the Southbank concert was expanded into an eight date Britain tour called The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny.[59] The bout showcased Sandy's entire songbook taking in her work with Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, her solo career and the new songs completed by Thea Gilmore on her album Don't Stop Singing.

The band was, once over again, composed of members of Bellowhead. Other acts performing included the aforementioned Thea Gilmore and upwards-and-coming folk acts Lavinia Blackwall of Trembling Bells, Blair Dunlop and Sam Carter, alongside more than established folk stars Maddy Prior, Dave Swarbrick and Jerry Donahue. The line-up was completed with performers not normally associated with the folk scene; Light-green Gartside, Joan Wasser (also known as Joan As Police Woman), and PP Arnold. The tour was well received, obtaining a iv-star review in The Times.[threescore] The London concert at the Barbican was filmed for BBC4, and circulate in a 90-minute programme titled The Songs of Sandy Denny in November 2012.[61]

In the 2012 Irish gaelic film Silence (Harvest Films & South Wind Blows), "Who Knows Where the Fourth dimension Goes" is used during the film and last credits.[62]

In April 2016 Denny was inducted into the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Hall of Fame.[63]

Alela Diane recorded the tribute "Song for Sandy" on her album Cusp, released in February 2018. The song reflects on Denny'southward concluding tragic days and her orphaned baby girl.[64]

Discography [edit]

Solo studio albums [edit]

  • The North Star Grassman and the Ravens (1971)
  • Sandy (1972)
  • Like an One-time Fashioned Waltz (1974)
  • Rendezvous (1977)

Solo live albums [edit]

  • The BBC Sessions 1971–1973 (1997)
  • Gold Grit (1998) (live recording from final tour, 1977)
  • Live at the BBC (2007 4-disc compilation)
  • Sandy – Deluxe edition, 2012 – includes "Live at Ebbetts Field" (previously unreleased concert on disc 2)

With others [edit]

Denny's collaborations with other artists, including with Alex Campbell, The Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, and The Bunch, together with numerous posthumous releases and compilation albums, are detailed further on the Sandy Denny discography page.

References and notes [edit]

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  4. ^ Cliff Jones (September 1995); "Forensic dissection of the man heart", Mojo, p. 110.
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  6. ^ a b c d e Patrick Humphries (1982) Meet on the Ledge: A History of Fairport Convention, London: Eel Pie Publishing Ltd; ISBN 0-906008-46-8
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  9. ^ "Where The Time Goes compilation". Sandydenny.org.uk. Retrieved 9 Feb 2017.
  10. ^ Heylin, Clinton (23 September 2011). Clinton Heylin, No More Deplorable Refrains: The Life and Times of Sandy Denny (Double-decker Press, 2011). ISBN9780857126979 . Retrieved v March 2017.
  11. ^ Clinton Heylin. No More Sad Refrains – The Life and Times of Sandy Denny. London, Helter Skelter, 2002, p. 64; ISBN 1-900924-35-8
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  13. ^ a b "Sold on Song – Song Library – Who Knows Where The Time Goes". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  14. ^ Brian Hinton and Geoff Wall, Ashley Hutchings: The Authorised Biography – The Guv'nor and the Rising of Folk-Rock, 1945–1973. London: Helter Skelter, 2002, p. 111.
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  20. ^ Aureate Grit: Live at the Royalty at AllMusic. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
  21. ^ a b c Mick Houghton. I've E'er Kept a Unicorn – The Biography of Sandy Denny. Faber & Faber, 2015, p. 393-397; ISBN 0571278914
  22. ^ a b c d east Mick Houghton. I've E'er Kept a Unicorn – The Biography of Sandy Denny. Faber & Faber, 2015, p. 401-403; ISBN 0571278914
  23. ^ a b c The Encyclopaedia of Dead Stone Stars. Chicago Review Press. 2008. p. 108. ISBN978-1556527548 . Retrieved 9 February 2017.
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  26. ^ a b c d Mick Houghton. I've Always Kept a Unicorn – The Biography of Sandy Denny. Faber & Faber, 2015, p. 405–409; ISBN 0571278914
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  35. ^ "Music Reviews". Uncut.co.uk. Retrieved eight April 2012.
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  37. ^ "Uncut v star Sandy Denny Box set review". Uncut.co.united kingdom. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  38. ^ Denselow, Robin (12 November 2010). "Sandy Denny: Sandy Denny - review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
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  41. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (24 Oct 2011). "Thea Gilmore: Don't End Singing". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
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  49. ^ "Georgia on Our Heed". Johnmartyn.info. 1 October 1997. Retrieved nine Feb 2017.
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  51. ^ Sleeve notes from the CD release of Mandy Morton and Spriguns, Magic Lady (1994).
  52. ^ "Decadent Daylilies in Australia". Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  53. ^ "'Sandy Denny' Lily". Retrieved nine February 2017.
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  55. ^ "BBC Radio ii Folk Awards". Retrieved 9 June 2008.
  56. ^ "Sandy Denny: Mercurial Queen Of British Folk Rock". NPR.org . Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  57. ^ Cumming, Tim (22 April 2008). "Sandy Denny Tribute, The Troubadour, London". Contained.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008.
  58. ^ Denselow, Robin (4 December 2008). "The Lady: Sandy Denny Tribute". The Guardian. London. Retrieved nine February 2017.
  59. ^ "The Lady: A Homage to Sandy – Tour Announcement". Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  60. ^ Sinclair, David (25 May 2012). "The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny at the Barbican, EC2". The Times. London. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  61. ^ "BBC4 Songs of Sandy Denny". Retrieved ix February 2017.
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  64. ^ The Guardian 's review of Alela Diane's anthology Cusp "Alela Diane: Cusp review – the agonies and ecstasies of motherhood". TheGuardian.com. 9 Feb 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
General
  • Heylin, Clinton (September 1988). "Sandy Denny". Record Collector. No. 109. pp. 61–66.

Farther reading [edit]

  • Mick Houghton. I've Always Kept a Unicorn – The Biography of Sandy Denny. Faber & Faber, 2015; ISBN 0571278914
  • Clinton Heylin. No More Sad Refrains – The Life and Times of Sandy Denny. London: Helter Skelter, 2002; ISBN 1-900924-35-8
  • Clinton Heylin. Gypsy Love Songs & Sad Refrains – The Recordings of Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny. Labour of Love Productions, 1989.
  • Colin Larkin. The Guinness Who'due south Who of Folk Music. Guinness Publishing Ltd; ISBN 0-85112-741-X
  • Jim Irvin. Angel of Avalon. MOJO Magazine, Baronial 1998.
  • Colin Harper, Trevor Hodgett. Irish gaelic Folk, Traditional & Dejection: A Surreptitious History. Cherry Red, 2005; ISBN 1-901447-forty-five
  • Pamela Murray Winters. No Thought of Leaving: A life of Sandy Denny. 2000. (Unpublished).
  • Brian Hinton, Geoff Wall. Ashley Hutchings: The Guv'nor & the Rise of Folk Rock. London: Helter Skelter, 2002; ISBN 1-900924-32-three
  • Patrick Humphries. Meet On The Ledge: The Classic Years 1967–1975. Virgin Books, 1997; ISBN 0-7535-0153-8
  • Patrick Humphries. Richard Thompson: Strange Thing – The Biography. Virgin Books, 1996; ISBN 0-86369-993-half-dozen
  • Philip Ward, "Sandy Denny: A Thirtieth Anniversary", R2 (Rock'n'Reel) 2(9), May/June 2008.
  • Philip Ward, Sandy Denny: Reflections on Her Music. Matador, 2011; ISBN 978-1-78088-020-4

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Homage to Sandy Denny
  • Defended to the memory of Sandy Denny
  • Sandy Denny website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Denny