Ewan MacColl

From her solo albums, recording and touring with her family including her late half-brother Pete Seeger, to writing songs with her late husband Ewan MacColl, Peggy is arguably the most powerful woman in folk. The legendary artist, who has lived in the UK for more than 30 years, will be performing works ...

iQuiz week 117 – test your general knowledge. Roberta Flack made which song by British folk singer Ewan MacColl into a global hit? See question No 8 (Photo by Kevin Winter/ImageDirect/Fox). John Clarke 2 weeks Friday March 30th 2018. Think you know it all? Then test yourself with our fiendish iQuiz. iNews. @FrankO ...

They didn't have Scottish bagpipes or anything; they were more interested in Scottish roots music: Woody Guthrie, Ewan MacColl, and different people from that era, who were writing folk songs that were vaguely political but also beautiful. I realized that this sounds very palatable and pretty on the surface, ...

... popular culture, from Woody Guthrie and Jackson Pollock, to Pete Seeger and Ewan MacColl. Welsh musician, author, filmmaker, producer and composer, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals will chat to fellow countryman Huw Stephens (co-host of our own Other Voices) about his search for cultural roots.

The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, the Ewan MacColl song, was first recorded by Bert on Jack Orion (1966) but only as an instrumental. On this later, vocal version, we can hear a more gentle style. Even the strings on his guitar don't get the punishment he dealt out seven years earlier. The background ...

Peggy will be showcasing a long and varied career with her appearance at the festival, focussing on her solo albums, recording and touring with her family including her late half-brother Pete Seeger, and songwriting with her late husband Ewan MacColl. Yola Carter (Picture: John Morgan). A festival ...

In America it was associated with singers like Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, in Britain with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, each run through with radical political themes from opposition to war and nuclear weapons to support for civil rights struggles and the labor movement. But in Ireland the ...

Under any circumstances, Ewan MacColl's The Joy of Living is capable of producing a lump in the throat of anyone with a love of mountains and wild places. Here it's given a characteristically poignant treatment from Jez Hellard and is merged with the last few comments from Mena, clear she won't ever ...

This whirling memoir follows the folksinger and activist through international tours, crises in her famous musical family, and a long, all-consuming relationship with the British singer Ewan MacColl. Seeger's conversational prose has a flair for capturing the common (a 1938 Chevy “had a vertical fish-mouth ...

The encores were given over to their biggest arena rock hits – Sanctify Yourself, Alive and Kicking and Don't You (Forget About Me) – and the one misfire of proceedings, an overblown rendition of Ewan MacColl's Dirty Old Town, before Kerr took a well deserved moment to survey his spiritual home with the ...

“Echo” — from the brand-new record — provided strength and beauty only to be followed by the cover of Ewan MacColl's “Dirty Old Town” featuring Been on acoustic guitar. That activist's lament set up the handclapped soul in “Shuffle Your Feet” from the band's record, Howl. The gloves came off as BRMC ...

This ecosystem of socialist culture helped pave the way for seemingly ordinary people such as the Foley sisters, Joe Norman, and Ewan MacColl to lead extraordinary lives. The meaning of this work was not only to develop a toughened core of socialists and trade unionists, but to show to a wider periphery ...

The love song that rules all is The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, written by Ewan MacColl and made immortal by Roberta Flack. Flack's voice expresses invincible power and yet almost unbearable tenderness and vulnerability. Love has transformed her into a godlike figure who walks among the stars, ...

A review of Peggy Seeger's memoir quotes her description of her early impressions of Ewan MacColl and how they fell in love, saying he had a “hairy, fat, naked belly poking out, and was clad in ill-fitting trousers, suspenders, no shirt, a ragged jacket and a filthy lid of stovepipe hat aslant like a garbage can” ...

Peggy Seeger with Ewan MacColl at home in Beckenham in 1965. Peggy Seeger with Ewan MacColl at home in Beckenham, south-east London, in 1965. Photograph: Brian Shuel/Redferns. The song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, written in 1957 by Ewan MacColl, son of working-class Scottish ...

“He was a stylistic fascist,” Calum MacColl said of his imposing and brilliant father, Ewan MacColl. As his third wife, Peggy Seeger, half sister to Pete Seeger, observed, “His whole life, Ewan was hitting a hard nail through a hard rock.” Along with artists like Bert Lloyd and Shirley Collins, Mr. MacColl led the ...

Left school at 14, political activist at 15, founded theatre troupe at 16, on MI5's files at 17, godfather of British folk revival at 35 – Ewan MacColl's early CV is something extraordinary, evidence of a fearless, galvanic character whose influence is still causing ripples at his centenary (he was born exactly 100 ...