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Fact #101270

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As Fairport Convention leave England for a brief visit to Denmark, Europe, they learn that singer Sandy Denny will not be travelling with them.

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As the night train from Birmingham hurtled through the dark towards London, Fairport Convention singer Sandy Denny could no longer hold back her tears. The Fairports were returning from a gig at Mother's Club (2.11.69) and, although the group's star was in the ascendant, Denny was plunging into despair.


"She spent most of the train journey in tears," recalls Fairport founding member Simon Nicol. The precise reason for those tears was hard to pinpoint but Denny seemed to see her life collapsing around her. Much as she loved the Fairports, she viewed their latest album, Liege And Lief, as a retrograde step. Largely the brainchild of Fairport bassman Ashley Hutchings, and fuelled by a desire to create something as distinctively English as the folk-rock of The Byrds was American, Liege and Lief consisted of traditional English folk songs played on electric instruments.


The album's producer Joe Boyd points out that, "Sandy had been involved with the traditional for a long time, but always rather ambivalently. She sang traditional songs as well as her own compositions. She was amused at Ashley's fanaticism