Sandy Denny
43 articles
Free articles
Sandy Denny: Like an Old-Fashioned Waltz
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2005
BEGUN IN LA and finished in London, Like an Old-Fashioned Waltz may be Denny's finest hour. Kicking off with 'Solo', one of her trademark piano ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages audio, 1977
The Queen of English Folk-Rock talks about going back on the road (the repertoire, the musicians and the nerves), about her recent split from Island Records, and about her new baby Georgia.
File format: mp3 File size: 9.5mb Interview length: 10' 23"; Sound quality: ****
List of articles in the library
Fotheringay: Sandy and the New Band
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 21 March 1970
FOTHERINGAY, the new band which has been formed by Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention and Trevor Lucas of Eclection, with Garry Conway (Eclection) and Pat ...
Concerts, Not Clubs, For Sandy Denny's Fotheringay
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, April 1970
TAKE ONE PART Fairport Convention, two parts Eclection, and two parts Poet and One Man Band, put them in a bag, stir well and allow ...
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 4 April 1970
S.W.6 IS NOT exactly the celebrated home of the hip, but this piece is not designed to specify popular vicinities of London. Nor is it's ...
Fotheringay, The Sea and Sandy Denny
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 27 June 1970
A FEW months ago Fotheringay was a pretty name for a group of musicians who happened to play together. Today it is the name of ...
Sandy Denny: The North Sea Grassman and the Ravens (Island)
Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 21 August 1971
WE ALWAYS knew Sandy Denny had the capacity to make a brilliant record, and we were right. ...
Sandy Denny: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 18 September 1971
PERHAPS I was expecting too much from Sandy Denny, or maybe I wanted too much, but I'm afraid her concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall ...
Sandy Denny: The North Star Grassman And The Ravens (ILPS 9165 £2.15)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 9 October 1971
SANDY'S VOICE CARRIES IT ...
Sandy Denny: The North Star Grassman & the Ravens (Island)
Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 21 October 1971
THERE SEEMS to be a line that lady singers have to cross before they begin to exhibit real soul. The transition also seems, to many, ...
Sandy Denny Breaks Her Silence
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 15 January 1972
After playing a Greta Garbo role for three months, the leading lady of British folk comes out of her shell to talk to Tony Stewart ...
Sandy Denny: Sandy and Band, Coping Cheerfully
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 5 April 1972
FROM THE outside the Denny residence in Fulham looks a place of tranquility. Inside, though, a different story prevails. As Watson the huge Airedale lumbers ...
Profile and Interview by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, September 1972
AN ARTICLE on Sandy Denny and Marian Segal, huh? O.K. Now who's Marian Segal? ...
Sandy Denny: Lady Mitchell College, Cambridge
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 14 October 1972
THERE APPEARS to be an army of green men all over Cambridgeshire. I thought it odd, at first, that every pub in the county should ...
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 1973
"SANDY DENNY really draws ‘em out", exclaimed Al Stewart, surveying the sea of well-known faces who had assemble at the Howff to see Britain’s number ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Music World, April 1973
THE SINGER/SONGWRITER boom is still rolling merrily along, but some of the most brilliant artists in the genre have failed to break through thus far. ...
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 8 September 1973
SANDY DENNY and Trevor Lucas were at their Fulham flat watching the test match when I arrived to tape the talk-in. England’s terrible plight was ...
Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 8 September 1973
SANDY, FROM HERE on you can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. On Monday at London's Howff you did what I've always ...
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 15 September 1973
ALL IN ALL, it's been a funny sort of year for Sandy Denny. She hadn't performed in this country before last Christmas though she's worked ...
Strawbs featuring Sandy Denny: All Our Own Work (Hallmark)
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
GET THE duster out, mother. Clear those cobwebs away, here's one from the archives. The Strawbs and Sandy Denny together recorded in 1968. The first ...
Island Records: Treasure Island
Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975
GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...
Sandy Denny (1977) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1977
This is a transcription of Karl's audio interview with Sandy. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, May 1977
THIS IS THE ALBUM we have been waiting for since Sandy left Fairport Convention for the second time at the end of 1975. Over six ...
Report and Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 16 July 1977
SANDY DENNY looked radiant. Yes, one is always supposed to say that about ladies when they're pregnant, but in this case it was true. She ...
Report and Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 12 November 1977
"IF I HAVE TO SING 'Matty Groves' one more time, I'll throw myself out of a window... I'll be doing a lot of stuff from ...
Sandy Denny: Sound Circus, Royalty Theatre, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 10 December 1977
IT'S TAKEN Sandy Denny quite a while to take the plunge as a live solo performer but hopefully the reaction she received from the Sound ...
Bob Dylan: Biograph; Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 28 December 1985
NOTHING AS simple as a "greatest hits" collection from the Bob Dylan of 1985, of course. ...
Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Island)
Review by Nick Coleman, New Musical Express, Summer 1986
WHEN SHE DIED I was still preoccupied with the politics of holey jeans and why the Ramones were the perfect emblem of the beast Modern ...
Sandy Denny: The Attic Tracks 1972-1984
Review by Cliff Jones, MOJO, September 1995
AT THE RISK of winning an all-comers hyperbole award, I shall begin and end by stating that Sandy Denny was the greatest female singer/songwriter Britain ...
Retrospective by Jim Irvin, MOJO, June 1998
Revered by everyone from Frank Zappa to The Spice Girls. Led Zeppelin's one and only guest star. One of Britain's greatest singers. Yet her true ...
Drowning in Genius: Surveying this season's mountain of greatest-hits albums
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 2000
SO, WHAT'LL IT BE: Tears for Fears? .38 Special? Whitesnake? It's become impossible to keep abreast of all the best-ofs, as labels keep foisting greatest-hits ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2005
FOLLOWING the Fairport Convention reunion that produced 1975's Rising For The Moon, Rendezvous was Denny's last LP before her death from a brain haemorrhage in ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2005
DENNY'S SECOND solo set, produced by boyfriend and Fotheringay graduate Trevor Lucas, was a decided improvement on her great but scattered debut. Evenly balanced between ...
Sandy Denny: The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2005
TO BILLY CONNOLLY she was "one of the angriest women I ever met", while Island press officer David Sandison recalled her as a "belligerent and ...
Retrospective by Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, 24 November 2005
Mark Hudson reveals the tragic tale of the British Joni Mitchell; Sandy Denny ...
Sandy Denny & The Strawbs: All Our Own Work
Review and Interview by Rob Young, Uncut, August 2010
Early recordings of English folk's finest voice, definitively remastered. ...
Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, September 2010
A monumental box for a great voice. ...
Sandy Denny: "I don't think she ever gave the future the time of day…"
Retrospective by Rob Young, Uncut, October 2010
When Sandy Denny left Fairport Convention at the height of their success, she seemed destined for solo stardom. What went wrong? With the help of ...
Thea Gilmore breathes new life into the words of a tragic lost star
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 14 October 2011
Folk-rock pioneer Sandy Denny left a wealth of lyrics that have inspired the artist's new album. ...
Sandy Denny: The Battle Of Evermore
Report and Interview by Kate Mossman, The Word, April 2012
The Sandy Denny tribute show is expanding, a long-running fight to "give her songs a future". ...
Sandy Denny: The Queen of Fairport
Retrospective by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 6 May 2012
LESS THAN A decade ago a retrospective CD box-set came out. A Boxful of Treasures documented the life and career of the English singer-songwriter Sandy ...
Mick Houghton: I've Always Kept a Unicorn – The Biography of Sandy Denny
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 21 February 2015
WHAT, HYPOTHETICALLY, would have happened if Sandy Denny had tried out for The Voice UK? Would Rita and Ricky and Will.i.am and Sir Tom have ...
Learning the Game: Sandy Denny and Jackson C. Frank
Book Excerpt by Mick Houghton, 'I've Always Kept a Unicorn' (Faber), March 2015
"I think my first songwriting influences came from somebody called Jackson Frank. He's an American bloke who made one album over here just called Jackson ...
see also Fairport Convention
see also Fotheringay
back to LIBRARY
