Knew Sappho Korner when I was 15 we used to party at their house in Notting Hill, still remember the "adults" going in a room closing the door so us kids could'nt enter, wonder what they were up to?!
To think there's a whole generation or wo that will never even hear this. We should forever celebrate our heritage- it's OK for Scots welsh and Irish, why not English? (It's not racist)
There is something in this song, and Sandy's treatment of it that induces happiness and melancholy in equal measure. I can't stop listening, wonderful and mysterious.
Prince Far-I is required listening for anyone new to reggae. I try to tell kids who are into Rebelution and bands like that. They often don't take me seriously. That old school ragga ain't sugar-free, island resort stuff.
Remembering Sandy Denny born on January 6, 1947. She was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer". After briefly working with the Strawbs, Denny joined Fairport Convention in 1968, remaining with them until 1969. She formed the short-lived band Fotheringay in 1970, before focusing on a solo career. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Denny
I absolutly love this song! I've listened it ( another version, but similar) for the first time sung in a beautiful Hamlet show. After that, I find this version and still love it!
This was the first Prince Far I song I ever heard, and after 30 years it still blows my mind! Great sax playing (Deadly Headley?) and extraordinary drumming by Style Scott. Prince Far I + Adrian Sherwood = match made in heaven! Far I's self-produced albums were great already, but his Singers & Players work is simply astonishing.
I've been clean now for nearly 3 years after nearly 40 years of methadone and heroin I have My daughter back now and my grandkids I'm not going back now I had my mum and dad were her parents God bless them because her mother died in my arms when she was 3 months old
Oldham forced them to write their first song .He had the vision to know they could do it. What the came up with on the first try didn't suit the bad boy image that Oldham wanted for them, so he gave As Tears Go By to Marianne Faithful who had a big hit with it. Once they realized they could write a hit song, they had the confidence to go on to write the most successful catalog of hit pop songs in history. They owe much of their success to Andrew.
