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Name: Vergil Iliescu
Location: Sydney, Australia

This blog is an exercise in self indulgence; a way of clarifying or testing my own thoughts - about the random things that interest me. Everything from politics to philosophy to poems and songs I like or even dislike. Putting it online forces me to think.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006


Sandy Denny Video!

This is a wonderful find - Sandy Denny singing some of her songs. (North Star Grassman and the Raven, a bit of Crazy Lady Blues and Late November). It's a bit wobbly at times, but a must for Sandy fans. I find her voice entrancing still, after so many years - saw her play with Fairport Convention at the Sydney Opera House in 1974, and never forgot it. (Yeah ... I was young!). She died in 1978, aged only 31.

Here is a good article on her life and talent from the Guardian newspaper


Here are the video clip links:
Sandy Denny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rd_gMrmf6g

Fotheringay (Sandy Denny's band after leaving Fairport): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTae4KLRn9c singing Too Much Nothing

Fairport Convention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0sSxk7yxn8 singing "Now be thankful"

Fairport Convention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYNzVfknB8 singing "Polly on the Shore" (features Trevor Lucas, Sandy's husband)

Fairport Convention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNsdVo2Em9o Singing the "Hanging Song" from the John Babbacombe Lee album

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