Books and articles
Anon. 1977. ‘Making waves: Sandy Denny’, Melody Maker, 16 July, p. 14
Carroll, Lewis. 1971. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan [first published 1865 and 1872]
Coleman, Ray. 1971. ‘Why Sandy wants to fly’, Melody Maker, 15 May, p. 13
Dallas, Karl. 1970. ‘Fotheringay, the sea, and Sandy Denny’, Melody Maker, 27 June, p. 15
Denselow, Robin. 1971. ‘Sandy solo star’, The Guardian, 10 September, p. 10
Gilbert, Jerry. 1973. ‘Sandy Denny in the Talk-In’, Sounds, 8 September, pp. 18, 23
Green, Miranda J. 1992. Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, London: Thames and Hudson
Greig, Charlotte. 1997. ‘Female identity and the woman songwriter’, in Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, ed. S. Whiteley, pp. 168-77, London: Routledge
___. 2004. ‘The lost girl’, The Word, November, p. 112 [review of A Boxful of Treasures]
Heylin, Clinton. 2000. No More Sad Refrains: The Life and Times of Sandy Denny, London: Helter Skelter
Hinton, Brian and Geoff Wall. 2002. The Guv’nor and the Rise of Folk Rock 1945-1973. Ashley Hutchings: The Authorised Biography, London: Helter Skelter
Humphries, Patrick. 1997. Nick Drake: The Biography, London: Pimlico
___. 2003. ‘The singing Madonna with an angel’s voice’, Sunday Express, 20 April, pp. 54-5
Irvin, Jim. 1998. ‘Angel of Avalon’, Mojo, June, pp. 42-59 [reprinted with revisions in A Boxful of Treasures]
Irwin, Colin. 1977. ‘Sandy fights back’, Melody Maker, 12 November, p. 46
___. 1978. ‘Sandy, first lady of folk-rock’, Melody Maker, 6 May, p. 4
James, Clive. 1974. ‘In a lonely moment’, Let It Rock, March, pp. 24-5
Judd, Neville. 2002. Al Stewart: The True Life Adventures of a Folk Rock Troubadour, London: Helter Skelter
Laing, Dave, Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton. 1975. The Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rock, London: Methuen
MacDonald, Ian. 2003. ‘Exiled from Heaven: the unheard message of Nick Drake’ in The People’s Music, London: Pimlico, pp. 210-57
Moore, Steve. 1973. ‘Sandy Denny: sympathy for the solo artist’, Rolling Stone, 21 June, p. 14
Nightingale, Anne. 1971. ‘Sandy Denny: "I am so frightened of success"’, Petticoat, 20 February, n.p.
Peacock, Steve. 1972a. ‘London horrors for Sandy’, Sounds, 8 January, p. 5
___. 1972b. ‘Sandy quietly getting together’, Sounds, 22 April, p. 11
Ray, John. 1678. A collection of English proverbs digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion… The second edition enlarged by the addition of many hundred English, and and an appendix of Hebrew proverbs, with annotations and parallels, Cambridge: W. Morden
Reynolds, Simon and Joy Press. 1995. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock’n’Roll, London: Serpent’s Tail
Sharp, Cecil. 1965. English Folk Song: Some Conclusions, 4th rev ed prepared by Maud Karpeles, London: Mercury [first published 1907]
Shipston, Roy. 1970. ‘One of the best!’ Disc and Music Echo, 20 June, p. 15 [review of Fotheringay]
Storr, Anthony. 1989. Freud (Past Masters), Oxford: Oxford University Press
Whiteley, Sheila. 2000. Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity, London: Routledge
Wilson, Tony. 1968. ‘It’s easy to see the change in Sandy’, Melody Maker, 27 July, p. 11
Winters, Pamela Murray. (1999?) Unpublished biography of Sandy Denny. MS
Off-air and unofficial recordings
Fotheringay in concert, BBC radio broadcast, 2 April 1970
Sandy Denny and The Happy Blunderers, live at Lincoln Festival, 24 July 1971 [audience bootleg recording]
Interview with Sandy Denny, ‘Tomorrow’s People’, BBC World Service broadcast, 23 April 1972
Select discography
The Bunch, Rock On. Island. ILPS 9189. 1972
Sandy Denny, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens. Island. ILPS 9165. 1971
___, Sandy. Island. ILPS 9207. 1972
___, Like An Old Fashioned Waltz. Island. ILPS 9258. 1973
___, Rendezvous. Island. ILPS 9433. 1977
___, Gold Dust: Live at the Royalty. Island. IMCD 252. 1998
___, A Boxful of Treasures. Fledg’ling. NEST 5002. 2004
___, The Attic Tracks Volume 3: First and Last Tracks. Limited edition cassette. Australian Friends of Fairport Convention. FOFC 5. n.d.
Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays. Island. ILPS 9092. 1969
___, Unhalfbricking. Island. ILPS 9102. 1969
___, Liege and Lief. Island. ILPS 9115. 1969
___, Rising for the Moon. Island. ILPS 9313. 1975
Fotheringay, Fotheringay. Island. ILPS 9125. 1970
Jackson C Frank, Jackson C Frank. Columbia. 33SX 1788. 1965
Theo Johnson and others, Hootenanny at The Barge. Summit. ATL 4150. 1965
Richard Thompson, Henry the Human Fly. Island. ILPS 9197. 1972
___, Mock Tudor. Capitol. 7243 4 98860 2 5. 1999
Web sources
www.sandydenny.co.uk
www.myspace.com/sandydenny
By far the most comprehensive online resource for information about Sandy Denny (http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/sandy.denny) was maintained by Reinhard Zierke of the University of Hamburg. This site has now been taken down, sadly, but may still be retrievable through internet archives such as the Wayback Machine.
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