A shame the way no one ever praises Judy Dyble. She was very talented and sounds so incredible on that first album. She deserves at the VERY least what everyone else gets in this band...just a shame.
Thank You so much for this video. I have just recently discovered The Fairport Convention and....Sandy Denny. I have fallen for her beautiful voice and her life story. I have loved folk music in America and now I find the diamonds of the United Kingdom. How I wish I have known of you beautiful much earlier in my life. Be that as it may, I now know of you, and my beloved angel Sandy Denny..May God Bless You All and Thank You so much for your beautiful music, which has charmed & made my life richer.
grown up with the inspiring music of Fairport in the 70s. They are are an amazing band with so many line ups and different directions. My favourite line up is Full House, Fairport Nine and all line ups with Sandy!!
Sempre na minha (simples) vida, desde os meus 17 anos, até agora. Incontornável banda e músicos que nos têm enchido a vida de alegria, música extraordinária e a quere-los para todo o SEMPRE! Fairport Convention ETERNOS E PARA SEMPRE!!!
Love to hear this documentary on Fairport Convention. Nice to learn a bit of history of their musical migration. Liege and Lief still stands up with many rock albums of that time. One of my favorite albums ever!
Typically excellent BBC bio. shows the fine, continuing tradition of Fairport .... kill if you will but they've not had great lead vocals for decades... sorry & Thank you.
@ Richard Hewlett - Never knew there was a cult around Sandy Denny. Good to hear that Fairport Convention is still going strong, the old lads! Her voice was unique though. Excuse me please, I wrote this after listening to the first song in this video - didn't realize the video lasts a bit under an hour! ; )
We saw sandy and trevor lucas with them at the opera house in sydney in 74 one of the best shows we've ever seen strangely not mentioned in there history in this doco, the No 9 lp is one of their best also ignored.
Sandy Denny - "Like an old fashioned waltz" One of the best albums ever created ! It´s just that you do not DARE to play it cause it could draw you into sth...lol
The Fairport Convention I saw fifty years ago wasn't this folkie band. They make a good living out of the name and are decent enough performers but the Convention of Denny, Swarbrick and Thompson was the brief and great period of the various manifestations. Like many other potent assemblies of disparate characters they shone fleetingly and then left to pursue other paths. What they, and in particular, Denny, did leave was a timeless catlogue of wonderful songs..
Totally agree - the cutting edge isn't there (only to be expected given their longevity I suppose) and their recording output is safe "plinky plonky" type folk
Absolutely, but don' t forget 2:17 Jack and Ginger 's contemporaries Danny Thompson and Terry Cox from Pentangle! And after the split in 73 - Who played double bass with Nick Drake and John Martyn?
factual mistake at 26.00 ,fairport appeared again on totp again when they perfomed on a short lived segment within the prog.called album release--- ref inner sleeve notes from the album history of fairport convention written by joe boyd
Great Fairport Convention ... enjoy the focus on the web in this BBC documentary ... have added this video to World University's folk rock wiki subject - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folk_rock_music - for open teaching and learning ... where we can all eventually eventually jam in real real time in group video - and even with Fairport ... :) ... Thank you Fairport Convention!
This is a pretty decent , if still incomprehensive documentary about this iconic band but has anyone noticed the wonderful faux pas made by Frank Skinner at 41.28 where he's describing the life of John Babbacombe Lee - Skinner claims that Lee was sentenced to "LIFE by hanging !!" - I imagine that would be very hard to achieve... Poor Frank Skinner.
I like their music quite a lot and they are clearly great musicians--- but why are they such stereotypes??--why do all the blokes have to have beards for god sake?--its so bloody conformist to the idea of this is what ''Folk'' is- and of course they all have to drink a lot because thats what guys with beards who play mandolins have to do. I suppose this is why so many people (not seen or heard here) HATE this idea of Folk.
You mean in your opinion. Apparently you haven't seen that many pictures of her. If you look to your right, right here, at "Sandy Denny- hall of Fame video, you'll see how attractive she was.
![Sandy Denny-Hall of Fame Award/Tribute [2016]{HD}](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ua2JmVktp2I/mqdefault.jpg)
A shame the way no one ever praises Judy Dyble. She was very talented and sounds so incredible on that first album. She deserves at the VERY least what everyone else gets in this band...just a shame.
Some of the greatest musicians of the modern era and music that brings one pure, unadulterated bliss.Simply delightful, heavenly music.
Thank You so much for this video. I have just recently discovered The Fairport Convention and....Sandy Denny. I have fallen for her beautiful voice and her life story. I have loved folk music in America and now I find the diamonds of the United Kingdom. How I wish I have known of you beautiful much earlier in my life. Be that as it may, I now know of you, and my beloved angel Sandy Denny..May God Bless You All and Thank You so much for your beautiful music, which has charmed & made my life richer.
1967-1976 a decade that produced so much good music, including fairport.
it sure did buddy in those years saw the best few years ever in modern music and culture
grown up with the inspiring music of Fairport in the 70s. They are are an amazing band with so many line ups and different directions. My favourite line up is Full House, Fairport Nine and all line ups with Sandy!!
Sempre na minha (simples) vida, desde os meus 17 anos, até agora. Incontornável banda e músicos que nos têm enchido a vida de alegria, música extraordinária e a quere-los para todo o SEMPRE! Fairport Convention ETERNOS E PARA SEMPRE!!!
Unhalfbricking is one of my all time favorite albums. I couldn't find it so I bought an import. I still have it!
Love to hear this documentary on Fairport Convention. Nice to learn a bit of history of their musical migration. Liege and Lief still stands up with many rock albums of that time. One of my favorite albums ever!
Typically excellent BBC bio. shows the fine, continuing tradition of Fairport .... kill if you will but they've not had great lead vocals for decades... sorry & Thank you.
Que lindo....los felicito por su vocación. Me hicieron muy feliz hace anios y hoy también ?
From '60s folk hippies to '80s new age gypsy travellers they cover a great span of time in modern musical-social lifestyles.
Loved this documentary! and long live Fairport!
I so wish there was more footage of Sandy!
+Nuarda Nuarda Me too
I would prefer less,the cult of Sandy is a bore.
@ Richard Hewlett - Never knew there was a cult around Sandy Denny. Good to hear that Fairport Convention is still going strong, the old lads! Her voice was unique though. Excuse me please, I wrote this after listening to the first song in this video - didn't realize the video lasts a bit under an hour! ; )
i love them soooo muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch !
We saw sandy and trevor lucas with them at the opera house in sydney in 74 one of the best shows we've ever seen strangely not mentioned in there history in this doco, the No 9 lp is one of their best also ignored.
Sandy Denny - "Like an old fashioned waltz" One of the best albums ever created !
It´s just that you do not DARE to play it cause it could draw you into sth...lol
Thank you very much for loading this up! Quite interesting, great music and a lot of information about Fairport Convention I didn´t know.
My favourite line-up has always been the Full House one.
The best celtic/British folk rock punkers ever!
Thx for the upload!
This really is a great view, thanks very much for uploading.
Enjoyed this!
The Fairport Convention I saw fifty years ago wasn't this folkie band. They make a good living out of the name and are decent enough performers but the Convention of Denny, Swarbrick and Thompson was the brief and great period of the various manifestations. Like many other potent assemblies of disparate characters they shone fleetingly and then left to pursue other paths. What they, and in particular, Denny, did leave was a timeless catlogue of wonderful songs..
Totally agree - the cutting edge isn't there (only to be expected given their longevity I suppose) and their recording output is safe "plinky plonky" type folk
Totally agree....this is a million miles from Unhalfbricking.
Fairport is best when it brings on the power.
Loved it.
13:45 fairport opens for pink floyd, what a time
Tam Lin is a great song by any standards.
i remember watching this years ago on bb4
Sandy ... pure love ;)
Richard Thompson, the guitarists guitarist
Just discovering this today in 2018
I saw the original line up on a support for Pink Floyd :-) In a provincial corn exchange , That´s how those times were,
That Sandy Denny lady was an enigma.
That was nice!!! Dank je!!!
mattacks and pegg were folkrock's jack bruce and ginger baker
Absolutely, but don' t forget 2:17 Jack and Ginger 's contemporaries Danny Thompson and Terry Cox from Pentangle!
And after the split in 73 - Who played double bass with Nick Drake and John Martyn?
very happy
hopefully see you at cropredy for the 50th this year.meet you on the ledge..........
factual mistake at 26.00 ,fairport appeared again on totp again when they perfomed on a short lived segment within the prog.called album release--- ref inner sleeve notes from the album history of fairport convention written by joe boyd
sandy denny is what made fairport
Where is "Sandy Denny Under Review" gone?
See you all at Croppers 2017.
Superb.
Does someone know the name of the Ian Campbell Folk Group song around 24:24 ?
The new word on the block is fluid.When a band gets older they have to be.I love Fairport and so I should.Jim.Liverpool.
Great Fairport Convention ... enjoy the focus on the web in this BBC documentary ... have added this video to World University's folk rock wiki subject - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folk_rock_music - for open teaching and learning ... where we can all eventually eventually jam in real real time in group video - and even with Fairport ... :) ... Thank you Fairport Convention!
This is a pretty decent , if still incomprehensive documentary about this iconic band but has anyone noticed the wonderful faux pas made by Frank Skinner at 41.28 where he's describing the life of John Babbacombe Lee - Skinner claims that Lee was sentenced to "LIFE by hanging !!" - I imagine that would be very hard to achieve... Poor Frank Skinner.
Wrong person for the job. A program about a national treasure, should surely be narrated by someone of suitable calibre! ... Still... tis' the Beeb
Well, since he was sentenced to "life" by hanging, at least now we know why Lee didn't "die" by hanging.
According to the session guitarist Alan Watt , the Eagles did not play a note on their first album .
Did you get lost?
41:10 ... wh'os that other guy with them? Is it JD?
What's the song at 9:51?
It is called "Time, it will show the wiser".
I would love to hear like Patty Griffin or Beth Orton perform some of Sandy Denny's stuff with them.
Pass the vomit bag.
The problem with these guys is they have no female vocalist
They did.
At first where is Sandy?
Wikipedia showed me the truth...
I’m sorry:(
. . . a little education.
I like their music quite a lot and they are clearly great musicians--- but why are they such stereotypes??--why do all the blokes have to have beards for god sake?--its so bloody conformist to the idea of this is what ''Folk'' is- and of course they all have to drink a lot because thats what guys with beards who play mandolins have to do.
I suppose this is why so many people (not seen or heard here) HATE this idea of Folk.
And u want to speculate on their private life? Try being a man for a minute.
Sandy was some ugly bird.
You mean in your opinion. Apparently you haven't seen that many pictures of her. If you look to your right, right here, at "Sandy Denny- hall of Fame video, you'll see how attractive she was.
This isn't Sandy Denny. This is Jacqui McShee. And you, sir, are an imbecile.