Sandy Denny Deluxe 19 CD Box Set This limited edition 19 CD box set includes 11 CDs featuring Sandy's complete studio recordings with Alex Campbell, Johnny Silvo, Fotheringay, Strawbs, Fairport Convention and solo with additional content; outtakes, demos and live recordings. Explore releases from Sandy Denny at Discogs. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Sandy Denny at the Discogs Marketplace. Live at the BBC is a four disc compilation of British folk singer songwriter Sandy Denny's BBC sessions from 1966 to 1973 and contains almost all her solo work for the corporation. Disc 4 of the set is a DVD of Denny performing three songs on the music programme One in ten in 1971: the only surviving solo footage of her.
Information has begun to emerge about the forthcoming definitive box set of Sandy’s work.
Sandy Denny (Limited Edition 19CD Box Set), due for release on 1 November 2010 from Universal Music. The record company says:
'This superb limited edition box set includes 19 CDs, 11 of which feature Sandy's complete studio recordings with Alex Campbell, Johnny Silvo, Fotheringay, Strawbs, Fairport Convention and solo with additional content – outtakes, demos and live recordings. There are 8 CDs of bonus material – unreleased songs, demos, unreleased BBC recordings, alternate takes, live recordings, acoustic versions, and rare radio interviews. This set includes the legendarily 'long lost' Lord Bateman.
Lavishly packed, this unique collection features all new artwork. It comes with a 72 page 11' square hardback book containing over 100 rare and mostly unseen photographs, Sandy's handwritten lyrics (many of which are unrecorded songs) and fascinating memorabilia. Each CD is housed in an individual gatefold digipack sleeve. The box also contains reproductions of a beautiful original Island press pack, an exceptionally rare A3 promo colour poster for Northstar Grassman And The Ravens, a set of Postcards, the receipt for the purchase of her first piano and one of Sandy's handwritten notebooks.'
Andrew Batt adds:
“I have been working on this boxset and have compiled the tracklisting, which will be released soon.
I think the way to look at it is, if there wasn’t substantial high quality unreleased material then this boxset wouldn’t be happening. Aside from two new songs – Lord Bateman and Twelfth Of Never – there are amongst other things demos for the whole Sandy album and most of Northstar that are exceptional and which fans will love. If you like Sandy in a more stripped down setting then this boxset will delight you! It is amazing that so much unreleased stuff has surfaced over the years, but after going through literally every master reel, this is really it!
I would estimate that there is 15-20% unreleased material, and remastered versions of things like All Our Own Work, Swedish Fly Girls that have never been on CD. All the previous bonus stuff will be included as well, and will also make their digital download debut.
The whole project has been a real labour of love and aims to represent Sandy’s complete legacy.”
Universal’s recommended retail price is around £140. Amazon UK is currently listing at £149.99 but this may reduce depending on the volume of pre-orders. It’s a tidy sum, but worth every penny, I reckon.
The artwork is by the ever-reliable Phil Smee. The design has not yet been finalised, so may differ slightly from the illustration above.
This sounds like a great project which we should all get behind. There's an official site at http://www.sandydenny.org.uk/ where you can join a mailing list for updates on the box and special offers. Also, the Island50 store is offering 100 sets that come with a numbered and framed print of the artwork, signed by the artist. Each print will be personally addressed to the purchaser.
(PS The Dutch painting I asked about in my previous post has now been identified as Vermeer, 'The Glass of Wine'. Thanks to Wim.)
Sandy Denny (Limited Edition 19CD Box Set), due for release on 1 November 2010 from Universal Music. The record company says:
'This superb limited edition box set includes 19 CDs, 11 of which feature Sandy's complete studio recordings with Alex Campbell, Johnny Silvo, Fotheringay, Strawbs, Fairport Convention and solo with additional content – outtakes, demos and live recordings. There are 8 CDs of bonus material – unreleased songs, demos, unreleased BBC recordings, alternate takes, live recordings, acoustic versions, and rare radio interviews. This set includes the legendarily 'long lost' Lord Bateman.
Lavishly packed, this unique collection features all new artwork. It comes with a 72 page 11' square hardback book containing over 100 rare and mostly unseen photographs, Sandy's handwritten lyrics (many of which are unrecorded songs) and fascinating memorabilia. Each CD is housed in an individual gatefold digipack sleeve. The box also contains reproductions of a beautiful original Island press pack, an exceptionally rare A3 promo colour poster for Northstar Grassman And The Ravens, a set of Postcards, the receipt for the purchase of her first piano and one of Sandy's handwritten notebooks.'
Andrew Batt adds:
“I have been working on this boxset and have compiled the tracklisting, which will be released soon.
I think the way to look at it is, if there wasn’t substantial high quality unreleased material then this boxset wouldn’t be happening. Aside from two new songs – Lord Bateman and Twelfth Of Never – there are amongst other things demos for the whole Sandy album and most of Northstar that are exceptional and which fans will love. If you like Sandy in a more stripped down setting then this boxset will delight you! It is amazing that so much unreleased stuff has surfaced over the years, but after going through literally every master reel, this is really it!
I would estimate that there is 15-20% unreleased material, and remastered versions of things like All Our Own Work, Swedish Fly Girls that have never been on CD. All the previous bonus stuff will be included as well, and will also make their digital download debut.
The whole project has been a real labour of love and aims to represent Sandy’s complete legacy.”
Universal’s recommended retail price is around £140. Amazon UK is currently listing at £149.99 but this may reduce depending on the volume of pre-orders. It’s a tidy sum, but worth every penny, I reckon.
The artwork is by the ever-reliable Phil Smee. The design has not yet been finalised, so may differ slightly from the illustration above.
This sounds like a great project which we should all get behind. There's an official site at http://www.sandydenny.org.uk/ where you can join a mailing list for updates on the box and special offers. Also, the Island50 store is offering 100 sets that come with a numbered and framed print of the artwork, signed by the artist. Each print will be personally addressed to the purchaser.
(PS The Dutch painting I asked about in my previous post has now been identified as Vermeer, 'The Glass of Wine'. Thanks to Wim.)
. 660 sharesSandy Denny (1947-1978) had one of the most remarkable voices in British folk-rock as well as superior songwriting skills, but her darker impulses got the best of her, cutting short a promising career at age 31. Still, her work with Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and on her solo albums have stood the test of time. Plus, she is the only person to share vocals with Robert Plant on a Led Zeppelin album.In Joe Boyd’s breezy memoir, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s (2007)—which Brian Eno called “the best book about music I’ve read in years”—the American expatriate talks about a time when he helped reshape the British music scene by making it take itself seriously.
Among Boyd’s many accomplishments were his opening—with John “Hoppy” Hopkins—of the UFO Club, ground zero for psychedelic London. He also produced the first single by Pink Floyd, a mainstay of the UFO Club; managed and produced the Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention, discovered, produced and then managed the enigmatic Nick Drake.
And that was just the start of his career.Through it all, though, one name kept bubbling up from Boyd’s narrative that begs further comment. Sandy Denny – by John Harrison 1967Boyd met Sandy Denny before she became the lead singer for Fairport Convention. At the time, she was a pianist, acoustic guitarist and a singer with a reputation as a boozer but in possession of such a rich and textured voice that she found herself in the weird position of being too good for any of the bands she joined. When he saw Denny performing at the legendary London folk club Les Cousins, Boyd felt she was floundering musically. In addition to playing songs by her ill-fated former boyfriend Jackson C. Frank, she was caught between the world of folk music andwhatever came next.“Whatever came next” was exactly what Boyd had in mind.Boyd describes staying up all night talking about music with Denny.
“Dawn found us listening to a tape of Radio Luxembourg’s sneak preview of Sgt Pepper at her parents’ home in WimbledonSandy was tired of slogging around the folk clubs with her guitar: she wanted to sing in front of a band. ‘A Day in the Life’ and ‘Lucy in the Sky’ made solo folk singing seem a very limited palette.”Denny gave Boyd an advance copy of an album she’d just made with the Strawbs. He was “startled by how great her voice sounded on record.” Particularly impressive was the song she’d composed, her first songwriting credit, “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?”. The song would go on to be covered by many other artists over the years since.The original version of the song, with the Strawbs. You can practically hear Boyd’s brain shouting, “Have I got the perfect band for you, Ms.
Denny!” But before he could act on that thought, Denny had found her way on her own to that ideal vehicle—Fairport Convention, another Boyd discovery. There she became the perfect vocal foil for the extraordinary guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson.
Together, over the course of three albums, Denny and the Fairports created a British version of the folk-rock that the Byrds had unleashed in America. They mined the rich motherlode of traditional English folk music, while adding the dexterity and power of an ensemble of brilliant rock musicians. The three albums she recorded with Fairport Convention— What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief, all released in 1969—are all now rightfully deemed classics. Sadly, her tenure with the Fairports didn’t last.
She departed in 1970, first to form her own band, Fotheringay, with Trevor Lucas, her future husband, then to pursue her own solo career. Fotheringay released one fine album, which contained five songs written by Denny, who had put down the acoustic guitar and moved behind the piano.Boyd had, early on in their relationship, noticed Denny’s insecurity over her instrumental playing: “When playing the guitar, she would stare at her left hand, keeping a wary eye out for the inevitable slip. It was only when she sat at the piano, her first instrument, that she became serene and graceful, the dignified lady she longed to be. She was cleaver and quick and a brutal punisher of fools, but she wore her neediness and her heart very much on her sleeve.”“Nothing More,” from the Fotheringay album, was the first song she composed on the piano.Here is Fotheringay performing “Nothing More” live at The Beat Club in 1970.
Boyd left England, for a job with Warner Brothers in California, before Denny could complete a second Fotheringay album. He’d had high hopes for her, but her own self-destructive behavior, particularly with alcohol, was an omen of darker days ahead. Even so, Sandy Denny embarked on a fairly productive solo career, releasing four albums from 1971 to 1977, each mining increasingly dark themes of loss, longing, passing time, the death of friends and lovers. Despite possessing one of the strongest and most captivating voices in pop music—a British equivalent of, say, Linda Ronstadt—Denny did not pander to trends or seek new musical pastures. Thus, sales of her solo albums diminished with each release and after Rendezvous (1977), Island Records dropped her from the label.She did, however, record a slightly eccentric album ( The Bunch: Rock On) with Richard Thompson, on which they, and a few other Fairport Convention musicians, covered some rock ‘n’ roll classics.The Bunch: “That’ll Be the Day,” Sandy Denny on vocals, Richard Thompson on lead guitar. But here’s where it gets a little strange.It seems that, over the years, Denny’s friends had tolerated or overlooked her increasingly erratic behavior. Known from the outset for her hard drinking and boisterous pranks, she also suffered from bouts of depression and dramatic mood swings that impacted her relations with band members and her own troubled marriage with Trevor Lucas.One tendency, above all others, should have been the reddest of red flags.
That is, she had a “party trick” of falling off bar stools or falling down flights of stairs, presumably as a humorous pratfall in the manner of Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau character. However, when combined with copious amounts of alcohol, the “trick” lost its humor and turned potentially dangerous.And, sometimes, it wasn’t a trick, but a real fall. In fact, in March 1978, Denny fell down a staircase while on vacation and suffered a head injury. To alleviate the resultant headaches, she was given a painkiller that could be fatal if combined with booze.
After a second serious fall at home, her husband took their daughter and went to Australia.Feeling abandoned, Denny asked a friend, Miranda Ward, if she could stay at her home, vowing to get help for her headaches and alcoholism. However, before she could act on those sensible impulses, Denny was found unconscious at the foot of a staircase in Ward’s home. She lapsed into a coma and never regained consciousness, dying on April 21, 1978.
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It’s shocking now to realize that she was all of 31 years of age. Sandy DennyThe world lost one of its great singing voices. Here’s hoping Sandy Denny found some peace in rest.####As seems to always happen with the supremely talented, Sandy Denny’s musical legacy and reputation has grown exponentially since her death. So, in that sense, she has not fallen into the realm of the obscure, the forgotten or the hard to find.The first of the posthumous releases to catch the wind of renewed fan interest, Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
(1985), was produced by Trevor Lucas and Joe Boyd.Several more reissues and packages of unreleased material have been made available over the ensuing decades, plus a short documentary film ( Sandy Denny Under Review). Most recently, the 7-CD box set by Fairport Convention Come All Ye – The First 10 Years (2017), contains previously unreleased demos and alternate takes featuring Denny during her first tenure with the band over the period 1968-69.This is the first of four parts of Sandy Denny Under Review, a thorough exploration of not just her career but the transitions going on in the English folk scene as it collided with rock & roll and psychedelia. Chris colesTo Allan history.Re sandy Denny.If you want to know more I lived near sandy and was. her secret boyfriend for the last three years of her life.She was planning to move in with me. She was a beautiful lovely girl.We drunk together but I only ever saw her take cocaine before a concert due to her nervousnessShe d say it was the only way she could get through it!
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She did fall but this was not a party trick!!!!!!!! It was due to her headaches where she complained it was a tumour despite doctors saying it wasn’t!!!This was caused by Trevor smashing her over the head one night with a iron saucepan an+ knocking her out!!This is the truth!!The songs she wrote were amazingLots corresponding to our everyday life!!Only I know thisChris coles.