SANDY DENNY

Born this day in 1947, I have shared somewhere prolly here sometime before that we live near the old Manor Recording Studio where Richard Branson first set up recording and I missed the opportunity or to be fair turned down the opportunity to go see Fairport Convention with Sandy as a bunch of pals when to the Manor and as local urchins and the times being what they were they just used to let us in to play in the gardens and smoke. This day they all went and met Fairport not even knowing they would be there (hence my saying I couldn't be bothered) and Sandy signed a friends plaster cast as he had broken his arm and the rest of the band joined in! I wasn't furious at missing this AT ALL! She was and is a legend but she was a complex person beset by alcoholism and was prone to self harm and throw herself downstairs and suchlike as attention seeking behaviour we think but boy she could sing like no-one else. We miss you Lady Fotheringay!