``The Best of Sandy Denny'' Celebrates Legendary Singer-Songwriter From Fairport Convention to Fotheringay to Her Solo Albums.Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2002 Sandy Denny, patron saint patron saint Saint to whose protection and intercession a person, society, church, place, profession, or activity is dedicated. The choice is usually made on the basis of some real or presumed relationship (e.g., St. of modern English Modern English n. English since about 1500. Also called New English. Modern English Noun the English language since about 1450 Noun 1. folk rock Folk rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and Canada around the mid-1960s. , is today a heroine of the new acoustic movement on both sides of the Atlantic, praised by the likes of Robert Plant, Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. , Rod Stewart, Pete Townshend, Don Henley, Judy Collins, Nanci Griffith and Kate Bush. First gaining fame in the `60s with Fairport Convention Fairport Convention are often credited with being the first English electric folk band. Formed in April 1967, with Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings and Shaun Frater, Fairport rapidly developed from playing cover versions of American 'west coast' style music to an , the singer-songwriter also enjoyed a critically acclaimed solo career before her death in 1978. "The Best Of Sandy Denny" edition of 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection (A&M/UME), released October 22, 2002, brings together 10 selections from Fairport Convention, her Fotheringay band and each of her four solo albums, all digitally remastered. The album begins with Fairport Convention's 1969 "Unhalfbricking" rendition of "Who Knows Where The Times Goes?," her signature piece which she wrote when she was just 18. How popular was Denny at the time? She won the Best Female Vocalist category in the then-prestigious Melody Maker This article is about the music newspaper. For the Gibson guitar model, see Gibson Melody Maker. Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. readers' poll in both 1969 and 1970. In that latter year, she led short-lived Fotheringay, represented on "The Best Of Sandy Denny" by "Nothing More," from its self-titled, and only, album. Denny finally made her solo debut with 1971's "The North Star Grassman And The Ravens," which included "Late November." Her second album, 1972's "Sandy," featured a string of fan favorites -- "It Suits Me Well," "It'll Take A Long Time" and "Listen, Listen." Her most ambitious album yet, "Like An Old-Fashioned Waltz," arrived in 1973 bearing the defiant independence of "Solo" and aching nostalgia of the title track. In 1975, Denny returned to Fairport Convention, though much of the original lineup had departed in the interim. The prodigal daughter Prodigal Daughter may refer to:
Her fourth solo album, "Rendezvous," appeared in 1977. With her marriage in trouble, she was drinking heavily and had recently begun suffering from blinding headaches and momentary blackouts. Nevertheless, the track that closes this collection, the fragile "I'm A Dreamer," hints at a brighter future. But it was not to be for her. Six months after she played her final concert, Denny fell down a flight of stairs Noun 1. flight of stairs - a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next flight of steps, flight staircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps at her home and suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. She died on April 20, 1978 at age 31. There would, as she herself sang on that final album, be no more sad refrains. The series 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection features new "best of" albums from the most significant music artists of the past century. |
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