Sandy denny biography book

In a Lonely Moment Further Reading. About the Author. Within a year he had set up the independent Brassneck Publicity, where he's looked after an extraordinary array of people ever since. He began writing again infirst for Mojo and later for Uncut. Images in this review. Top reviews from Australia. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.

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Sandy denny biography book: I've Always Kept a

Verified Purchase. A well researched story of a very gifted singer. It is sad that she was so insecure, and couldn't get her life together. Her singing should have brought more fame, but she seemed reluctant to make important decisions. See more reviews.

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Top reviews from other countries. Knowing the meaning behind her most personal songs made nearly all of them make sense. Well written and researched. Listen to her music, read the book, and then listen to it again. Make sure you listen to her most beautifully sung songs like "She moves through the fair" and 'Banks of the Nile" among many others.

The first book I've read that moved me to tears. Very well written and researched with copious references. Certainly changed my long held view of Trevor Lucas. Under the circumstances there was little else he could do. If only Sandy had not suffered from such terrible personal insecurity she'd probably have survived. A must-read for any fan of Sandy.

Sandy Denny's reputation holds up and even improves and this well-considered book answers a lot of questions I had and presents an excellent view of her time and life and that of Fairport and Fotheringay. Revealing interviews with members of Pentangle, including John Renbourn, Linda Thompson, and many other figures of the rock-folk scene of the late s and s.

By the end ofafter a succession of inept managers, and a disastrous U. Denny made her fourth, and last, album Rendezvous, a confused affair, veering off in too many different directions and doing little to re-establish her credentials as potentially a hugely-successful singer-songwriter. To add to her anxieties she became pregnant and the child, a girl named Goergia, she had always confessed to wanting, but by now was in no fit state to become a mother to, was born in Julytwo month before Island Records dropped her.

By now, tragically, her life was totally unravelling. Isolated, artistically adrift, depressed, possibly paranoid, post-natal depession quite possibly made things even worse for her and her drinking and drug-taking fuelled her neuroses remorselessly. Sandy Denny had fallen down the stairs on numerous occasions. In April she was staying with a friend, Miranda Ward.

Musician Jon Cole who Miranda had asked to look in on Sandy, found her unconscious at foot of the stairs on April Lucas flew back from Australia immediately to be with her but she never emerged from a coma and died on April 21 aged Either way she died a tragic, lonely, premature death after a turbulent, intermittently incandescent life.

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Houghton offers, to his credit, a largely non-judgmental and objective interpretation of events which thankfully avoids any woolly myth-making or unnecessary sentimentality. Furthermore a four-CD box set of Fotheringay recordings is about to be released by Universal, following on from their mammoth nineteen CD Sandy Denny box set issued in Internet Arcade Console Living Room.

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