Sandy Denny
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Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 19 April 1978) was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention.
Denny appeared at the Fairport Convention in 1968 and then remained with them until 1969. She has been described as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer."
In 1970, she formed Fotheringay, a short-lived band, before focusing on a solo career.
Denny released four solo albums between 1971 and 1977: The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, Sandy, Like an Old Fashioned Waltz and Rendezvous.
She appeared on "The Battle of Evermore" with Robert Plant in 1971 for Led Zeppelin's album Led Zeppelin IV.
Denny died in 1978 at the age of 31 due to injuries and health problems related to alcohol use. Uncut and Mojo have dubbed Denny Britain's best female singer-songwriter.
"Who knows where the time goes?" Cathy's composition "Who knows where the time goes." Judy Collins, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, 10,000 Maniacs, and Cat Power have all been recorded.
Her recorded work has been included in a number of reissues, as well as a slew of previously unreleased pieces that has appeared in more than 40 years since her death, most notable among which was a 19-CD box set that was launched in November 2010.
Early career
Denny's nursing career was short-lived. In the meantime, she had gained a foundation course at Kingston College of Art, which she took up in September 1965, becoming involved with the folk club on campus. Her contemporaries at the university included guitarist and future Pentangle student John Renbourn.
Denny started performing the folk club circuit in the evenings after her first public appearance at the Barge in Kingston upon Thames, incorporating songs by Tom Paxton and traditional folk songs. Denny appeared on BBC Radio Cecil Sharp House on December 2, 1966, where she accompanied herself on two well-known songs, "Fir a Bhata" and "Green Grow the Laurels."
Jackson C. Frank, the American singer-songwriter, was one of her first professional recordings made in mid-1967 for the Saga label, presenting traditional songs and covers of folk contemporaries, including her boyfriend of this period, Jackson C. Frank. They were featured on the albums Alex Campbell and His Families, as well as Johnny Silvo's Sandy and Johnny Silvo. These songs were included on the 1970 album It's Sandy Denny, where the songs from Sandy and Johnny were re-recorded with more advanced vocals and guitar playing. On the 2005 compilation Where The Time Goes, the complete Saga studio recordings were released.
By this time, she had dropped out of art college and began dedicating herself entirely to music. Although she was playing at The Troubadour folk club, a Strawbs member, heard her, and in 1967, she was invited to join the band. Sandy Denny and the Strawbs: All Our Own Work she released one album in Denmark with them, which was released belatedly in 1973. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" — an early solo interpretation of her best-known (and widely distributed) song "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" — features an early solo version of "Who Knows Where the Time Goes." A demo of the song made it into the custody of American singer Judy Collins, who wanted to cover it as the title track of an album of her own in November 1968, giving Denny international exposure as a songwriter long before she became well-known as a singer.
Solo career and final years
The North Star Grassman and the Ravens was her first solo album, and she went on to record her first solo album, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens. It was released in 1971 and stands out for its elusive lyrics and unusual harmonies. "Late November" was inspired by a dream and the death of Fairport band member Martin Lamble, and "Next Time Around" a cryptogram about Jackson C. Frank, one of her many portraits in song.
Sandy was the first of her albums to be produced by Trevor Lucas after a cover photograph by David Bailey in 1972. The album included eight new original compositions as well as a Richard Faria's last recording of a traditional song "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood," with Denny's upbeat multi-track vocal arrangement influenced by the Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic.
Melody Maker readers voted her twice as "Best British Female Singer" in 1970 and 1971, and she and colleagues, Richard Thompson and Ashley Hutchings, participated in a one-off campaign called the Bunch to record a set of rock and roll era requirements that were not released under the name of Rock On.
Denny appeared on "The Battle of Evermore," which was also on Led Zeppelin's 1971 album (Led Zeppelin IV), making her the first guest vocalist to appear on a Led Zeppelin album. Denny had a small cameo on Lou Reizner's symphonic arrangement of the Who's rock opera Tommy in 1972. Her brief appearance appeared at the end of the album "It's a Boy" (which also featured vocals from Pete Townshend).
She married long-term boyfriend and producer Trevor Lucas in 1973 and released Like an Old Fashioned Waltz, a third solo album. The songs explored many of her personal obsessions, including loneliness, fear of the dark, the passing of time, and the changing seasons. The collection included "Solo," one of her best-loved pieces, as well as a Gered Mankowitz cover image.
She returned to Fairport Convention (of which her husband was by then a participant) for a world tour (captured on the 1974 album Fairport Live Convention) and a studio album titled Rising for the Moon in 1975. Despite the fact that her growth as a soloist and songwriter had led her further from the band's roots track, seven of the eleven tracks on Rising for the Moon were either written or co-written by her.
Denny and Lucas attended the Fairport Convention at the end of 1975 and embarked on what would be her last album Rendezvous. Denny was subsequently dropped by Island Records after being released in 1977. Denny gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Georgia, in July 1977, after relocating to Byfield, Northamptonshire in the mid-seventies.
In fall 1977, the United Kingdom tour to promote Rendezvous marked her final public appearances. The closing night at the Royalty Theatre in London on November 27, 1977, was recorded for a live album, Gold Dust, which, due to technical difficulties in the recording of the electric guitar, was sadly released in 1998 after the majority of the guitars had been re-recorded by Jerry Donahue.