SANDY DENNY – FAIRPORT CONVENTION – ” Fotheringay ” died 36 years ago this week.

Posted: April 23, 2014 in MUSIC
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Sandy Denny passed away 36 years ago , Sandy an English singer songwriter with a haunting vocal and best known for her contribution to the folk rock band FAIRPORT CONVENTION and her own solo career from 1971-77 produced four solo albums, also after a short spell in the Strawbs she joined Fairports in 1968 and was with the band for just over a year but recorded three classic folk rock albums that changed the sound of the UK folk scene, UNHALFBRICKING, WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS and LEIGE and LIFE and the project after leaving Fairport the short lived group FOTHERINGAY. Sandy was also featured on the Led Zeppelin classic track “Battle For Evermore” from the “IV” album. Leaving many superb songs “Who Knows Where The time Goes”,The Sea, The Banks Of The Nile and the beautiful “Fotheringay” Sandy was only 31 when she died after falling down a stairwell hitting her head causing a mild brain haemorrhage, dying from trauma to the head. ,

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