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Make It Music by Everly Lucas5/24/2023 ![]() Feted during her lifetime by everyone from fellow folk guru Judy Collins to Led Zeppelin, she has been championed in various books, not least Mick Houghton’s in-depth work from 2015, I Always Kept A Unicorn, and appears in various anthologies. ![]() ![]() She started out with a startling confidence and independence, qualities rarely seen in 1960s schoolgirls, but ended indecisive and confused. Sandy started singing in folk clubs in 1963, a suburban middle class teenager from Wimbledon, south London, and died in 1978, disillusioned, disappointed and dependent on drugs and drink. It is a question which seems all the more poignant when posed by a figure whose own time is cut short, like it was for Sandy herself a woman who could have reached for world stardom, but whose life ebbed away with all the tragedy of one of her songs. Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” asked Sandy Denny, one of the most powerful and inspirational singers Britain – or indeed, anywhere else – has ever produced. ![]()
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