0:00:07 > 0:00:11# Feel how the wind blows
0:00:11 > 0:00:14# December despair
0:00:14 > 0:00:18# Bring me a ribbon
0:00:18 > 0:00:22# To tie up my hair
0:00:22 > 0:00:25# I'll be your bride
0:00:25 > 0:00:29# Go where you go
0:00:29 > 0:00:33# All of my life
0:00:33 > 0:00:36# You'll be my beau...#
0:00:36 > 0:00:38There's no doubt that Sandy Denny was a trailblazer.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Certainly people who are interested in acoustic music look to Sandy
0:00:42 > 0:00:45and think she was one of the originals.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46She did so much work,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49she played with so many people in such little time
0:00:49 > 0:00:50and then she went out on her own.
0:00:50 > 0:00:55It's really an amazing life for the time she had here.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Although her fame really emerged
0:00:57 > 0:00:59with Fairport Convention and the folk rock movement,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02whilst that angle of her career was appreciated,
0:01:02 > 0:01:03what was less appreciated
0:01:03 > 0:01:06was her work as a songwriter, particularly on her solo albums.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13The whole purpose of this gig
0:01:13 > 0:01:16is to show how accessible Sandy's wonderful music is.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20You've got all these singers from different genres,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22all doing a great job with Sandy's music.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Sandy wrote beautiful, beautiful lyrics. Poetry, really.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32# You tell me things
0:01:32 > 0:01:35# No-one else did. #
0:01:35 > 0:01:40Running alongside that were wonderful tunes with great chords.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44If people take anything away from this,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46it's that Sandy had a great songbook.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50So even though Sandy's voice carries all before it,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53actually, the songs work with other people.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56APPLAUSE
0:02:13 > 0:02:16# The wine, it was drunk
0:02:16 > 0:02:20# The ship, it was sunk
0:02:20 > 0:02:24# The shot, it was dead
0:02:24 > 0:02:27# All the sorrows were drowned
0:02:27 > 0:02:30# The birds, they were clouds
0:02:30 > 0:02:34# The brides and the shrouds
0:02:34 > 0:02:39# And as we moved south
0:02:39 > 0:02:42# The mist, it came down
0:02:52 > 0:02:56# The wooded ravine
0:02:56 > 0:02:59# To the wandering stream
0:02:59 > 0:03:03# The serpent, he moved
0:03:03 > 0:03:06# But no-one could say
0:03:06 > 0:03:09# The depths of the waters
0:03:09 > 0:03:13# The bridge which distraught us
0:03:13 > 0:03:16# And brought to me thoughts
0:03:16 > 0:03:23# Of the ill-fated day-y-y-y
0:04:21 > 0:04:23# The temples were filled
0:04:23 > 0:04:28# With the strangest of creatures
0:04:28 > 0:04:30# One played it by ear
0:04:30 > 0:04:35# On the banks of the sea
0:04:35 > 0:04:37# One of them was found
0:04:37 > 0:04:42# But the others, they went under
0:04:42 > 0:04:44# Oh, the tears which are shed
0:04:44 > 0:04:52# They won't come from me
0:04:52 > 0:04:56# The methods of madness
0:04:56 > 0:04:59# The pathos and the sadness
0:04:59 > 0:05:02# God help you all
0:05:02 > 0:05:06# The insane and wise
0:05:06 > 0:05:09# The black and the white
0:05:09 > 0:05:13# And the darkness of the night
0:05:13 > 0:05:16# I see only smoke
0:05:16 > 0:05:23# From the chimneys arise
0:05:31 > 0:05:34# The pilot, he flew
0:05:34 > 0:05:38# All across the sky and woke me
0:05:38 > 0:05:41# He flew so low
0:05:41 > 0:05:46# On the mercury sea
0:05:46 > 0:05:48# The dream it came back
0:05:48 > 0:05:52# All about the tall brown people
0:05:52 > 0:05:55# The sacred young herd
0:05:55 > 0:06:07# On the phosphorus sand. #
0:06:14 > 0:06:17APPLAUSE
0:06:17 > 0:06:18Thank you.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39# Good morning
0:06:39 > 0:06:41# Good afternoon
0:06:41 > 0:06:46# And what have you got to say?
0:06:46 > 0:06:50# Well, I'm waiting but I can't stay long
0:06:50 > 0:06:54# It's such a lovely day
0:06:56 > 0:06:59# There's a time to be talking
0:06:59 > 0:07:04# And a time when it's no use
0:07:04 > 0:07:09# Right now I think, the things you say
0:07:09 > 0:07:12# Are liable to confuse
0:07:12 > 0:07:20# We've just gone solo
0:07:20 > 0:07:27# Do you play solo?
0:07:27 > 0:07:32# Ain't life
0:07:32 > 0:07:38# A solo?
0:07:38 > 0:07:43# What a wonderful way to live
0:07:43 > 0:07:46# She's travelled all over the world
0:07:48 > 0:07:56# Why, the fame and all the golden opportunities unfurled
0:07:56 > 0:08:01# No time for the gent with the Mulliner Bentley
0:08:01 > 0:08:04# And heaven knows what else
0:08:06 > 0:08:10# Why, he wouldn't even stand a chance
0:08:10 > 0:08:15# With all his oil wells
0:08:15 > 0:08:22# She's just gone solo
0:08:22 > 0:08:29# Can you play solo?
0:08:29 > 0:08:35# Ain't life
0:08:35 > 0:08:39# A solo?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46# She always lived in a mansion
0:09:46 > 0:09:51# On the other side of the moon
0:09:51 > 0:09:55# And she always kept a unicorn
0:09:55 > 0:10:00# And she never sang out of tune
0:10:00 > 0:10:05# She can tell you that the grass is really greener
0:10:05 > 0:10:09# On the other side of that hill
0:10:09 > 0:10:14# And now her songs communicate with us
0:10:14 > 0:10:18# And I guess they always will
0:10:18 > 0:10:26# Now she's gone solo
0:10:26 > 0:10:33# We all play solo
0:10:33 > 0:10:39# Ain't life
0:10:39 > 0:10:43# A solo?
0:10:56 > 0:11:05# And she's gone solo
0:11:05 > 0:11:12# We all play solo
0:11:12 > 0:11:18# Ain't life
0:11:18 > 0:11:25# A solo? #
0:11:27 > 0:11:28APPLAUSE
0:11:32 > 0:11:34I was a friend of Sandy's
0:11:34 > 0:11:36and I liked her songs.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39I didn't know them well, because we were all busy doing our own thing.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43# And everything is lost
0:11:43 > 0:11:47I've learned through this how much I like a lot of her other material.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49# And the fretful sailors
0:11:49 > 0:11:52# Calling out their woes
0:11:52 > 0:11:55The thing about her songs which makes them timeless
0:11:55 > 0:11:58is the arrangements and harmonies that she comes up with.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Because they're not standard. They're quite unusual.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04And they, kind of, grow on you, the more you listen to them.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11I was hugely influenced by Fairport and adored them.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Subsequently, I got interested in Sandy's solo stuff.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18I actually started singing in folk clubs when I was about 15.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19And until punk came along,
0:12:19 > 0:12:24then that kind of music was the music that meant most to me. I mean, I still love it now.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28# All upon the shore for
0:12:28 > 0:12:32# To wonder why the sailor goes
0:12:32 > 0:12:36# All to close their eyes
0:12:36 > 0:12:40# And wonder what the sailor...
0:12:40 > 0:12:44What I liked about her lyrics, there was an awful lot of nautical imagery.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47I don't know if it's possible to get through a Sandy song without
0:12:47 > 0:12:50a mention of a sailor or the sea or a bit of seaweed or something.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54But apart from that, there's some really mysterious stuff
0:12:54 > 0:12:57in her lyrics, which I particularly like.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01# Sailing by the North Star. #
0:13:01 > 0:13:03The North Star Grassman And The Ravens,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06it's full of that nautical stuff.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09It is a mysterious song. It's mysterious to me, and, er...
0:13:09 > 0:13:11and a little tricky to sing.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14NAUTICAL PERCUSSION
0:13:38 > 0:13:42# They stood upon the deck
0:13:42 > 0:13:46# As the ship went out to sea
0:13:46 > 0:13:50# The wind it took the sails
0:13:50 > 0:13:52# And left the land
0:13:52 > 0:13:57# A memory
0:13:58 > 0:14:01# All upon the shore for
0:14:01 > 0:14:05# To wonder why the sailor goes
0:14:05 > 0:14:09# All to close their eyes
0:14:09 > 0:14:18# And wonder what the sailor knows
0:14:18 > 0:14:20# That is you to them
0:14:20 > 0:14:23# That is how they think you are
0:14:25 > 0:14:27# Never on the land
0:14:27 > 0:14:32# But gone to find the North Star
0:15:08 > 0:15:11# That is you to them
0:15:11 > 0:15:15# That is how they think you are
0:15:15 > 0:15:18# Never on the land
0:15:18 > 0:15:22# But gone to find the North Star
0:15:22 > 0:15:26# To the tower and to the ravens and
0:15:26 > 0:15:29# The tale that hopes they'll never leave
0:15:29 > 0:15:33# What if they should go?
0:15:33 > 0:15:37# We always dread to think of them
0:15:40 > 0:15:44# I wonder if they flew one day
0:15:44 > 0:15:48# And no-one ever knew they'd gone
0:15:48 > 0:15:51# To circle over ships at sea
0:15:51 > 0:15:58# Claiming yet another son
0:15:59 > 0:16:01# That is you to them
0:16:01 > 0:16:06# That is how they think you are
0:16:06 > 0:16:08# Never on the land
0:16:08 > 0:16:15# But gone to find the North Star. #
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- APPLAUSE - Thank you very much.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07So, Sandy was only, um...31 when she died.
0:17:07 > 0:17:13And she left behind a number of unfinished lyrical ideas.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15And thankfully for us,
0:17:15 > 0:17:19those ideas made their way into the hands of our next singer.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Please, a round of applause for Thea Gilmore.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24APPLAUSE
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Thank you.
0:17:37 > 0:17:42I was contacted last year by Sandy Denny's estate
0:17:42 > 0:17:44and by Island Records.
0:17:44 > 0:17:49And they'd gathered this portfolio of unfinished Sandy songs -
0:17:49 > 0:17:52a load of lyrics that had been found over the years.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55And they said, "We want these out into the world,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57"but they've got no music to go with them.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01"And would you be up for writing the music to them?"
0:18:01 > 0:18:04And I kind of thought, "Well, that's either the best thing
0:18:04 > 0:18:07"I've ever been asked to do in my life,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10"or it's a real poisoned chalice. And I'm not sure which yet."
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Because it's a scary thing taking on someone else's lyrics.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16I opened this portfolio up and I looked at these words
0:18:16 > 0:18:20and I thought, "These are amazing. Beautiful lyrics."
0:18:20 > 0:18:22And the tunes kind of just fell out.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25And I thought, "Well, they must be meant to be out there."
0:18:25 > 0:18:29So I hope that, wherever she is now, Sandy approves.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31I guess we'll never know.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36One, two, three, four!
0:18:51 > 0:18:55# I'm going to call that number
0:18:55 > 0:18:58# Though I don't really mean
0:18:58 > 0:19:01# To wake you from your slumber
0:19:01 > 0:19:03# While England is asleep
0:19:05 > 0:19:09# The hotel is just like yesterday
0:19:09 > 0:19:12# And the city has no name
0:19:12 > 0:19:16# It just stands there in a grey haze
0:19:16 > 0:19:18# My room is the same
0:19:19 > 0:19:23# Well, I'm going to call that number
0:19:23 > 0:19:27# So far across the sea
0:19:27 > 0:19:30# I wish I was in London
0:19:30 > 0:19:33# That's where I want to be
0:19:35 > 0:19:37# That's where I want to be
0:19:44 > 0:19:48# I love it when you miss me Well, I'm unhappy, too
0:19:48 > 0:19:52# Oh, please don't you forget me I am so in love with you
0:19:54 > 0:19:57# Yeah, it won't be long now And even though I know
0:19:58 > 0:20:03# I seem to leave my heart behind me every time I go
0:20:04 > 0:20:08# Well, I'm going to call that number
0:20:08 > 0:20:11# So far across the sea
0:20:11 > 0:20:14# I wish I was in London
0:20:16 > 0:20:18# That's where I want to be
0:20:18 > 0:20:22# Well, I'm going to call that number
0:20:22 > 0:20:26# So far across the sea
0:20:26 > 0:20:29# I wish I was in London
0:20:29 > 0:20:32# That's where I want to be
0:20:33 > 0:20:35# That's where I want to be
0:20:37 > 0:20:41# Yeah, I feel so tired and lonely
0:20:41 > 0:20:43# And I'm thinking of you, lover
0:20:43 > 0:20:46# I wish you could console me
0:20:46 > 0:20:52# But maybe when it's over
0:21:05 > 0:21:08# I'm going to call that number
0:21:08 > 0:21:12# Though I don't really mean
0:21:12 > 0:21:16# To wake you from your slumber
0:21:16 > 0:21:19# While England is asleep
0:21:21 > 0:21:24# And the hotel is just like yesterday
0:21:24 > 0:21:27# And the city has no name
0:21:27 > 0:21:31# It just stands there in a grey haze
0:21:31 > 0:21:34# And my room is, my room is the same
0:21:34 > 0:21:38# I'm going to call that number
0:21:38 > 0:21:42# So far across the sea
0:21:42 > 0:21:45# I wish I was in London
0:21:45 > 0:21:48# That's where I want to be
0:21:49 > 0:21:52# I'm going the call that number
0:21:52 > 0:21:56# So far across the sea
0:21:56 > 0:21:59# I wish I was in London
0:21:59 > 0:22:02# That's where I want to be
0:22:03 > 0:22:05# That's where I want to be. #
0:22:22 > 0:22:24APPLAUSE
0:22:27 > 0:22:29'Being on stage with all these musicians,'
0:22:29 > 0:22:33it kind of feels strangely natural.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36I thought that I would be a bit overwhelmed,
0:22:36 > 0:22:38I mean, somebody like Dave Swarbrick.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41My father, I cannot tell you how big a fan of Dave Swarbrick's he was.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Now I'm walking around backstage
0:22:43 > 0:22:46and my five-year-old little boy is jamming with Dave Swarbrick.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48And it's just a wonderful thing.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50It's brilliant being on stage with Swarb.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53He likes to be called Swarb. He's really funny.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56And, er...he's just got a brilliant sense of humour.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59When he plays, it's like...with Baroque music,
0:22:59 > 0:23:01people are always doing ornamentation.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Or like jazz or something. He's constantly improvising
0:23:04 > 0:23:07so that the tune is hidden within the depths of what he's doing.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10But you kind of hear it in...
0:23:10 > 0:23:13He just totally weaves around it, but he gets to the end eventually.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17During the Quiet Joys of Brotherhood,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20the song itself is a traditional melody from Blackwaterside
0:23:20 > 0:23:23and the words are put on by a man called Dick Farina, Richard Farina,
0:23:23 > 0:23:25which I did with Sandy.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28She overlaid all the tracks, I just did it with Sandy on her own.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31There are fiddle players...
0:23:31 > 0:23:33and then there's this guy.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:35 > 0:23:37The legend, Dave Swarbrick!
0:23:37 > 0:23:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:52 > 0:23:59# As gentle tides go rolling by
0:23:59 > 0:24:06# Along the salt sea strand
0:24:06 > 0:24:14# The colours blend and melt as one
0:24:14 > 0:24:22# Together in the sand
0:24:22 > 0:24:28# And often do the winds entwine
0:24:28 > 0:24:35# Do send their distant call
0:24:35 > 0:24:42# The quiet joys of brotherhood
0:24:43 > 0:24:51# And love is lord of all
0:24:53 > 0:25:01# The oak and weed together rise
0:25:01 > 0:25:07# Along the common ground
0:25:07 > 0:25:15# The mare and stallion light and dark
0:25:15 > 0:25:21# Have thunder in their sound
0:25:21 > 0:25:27# The rainbow sign the blended flower
0:25:27 > 0:25:34# Still have my heart in thrall
0:25:34 > 0:25:42# The quiet joys of brotherhood
0:25:42 > 0:25:50# And love is lord of all
0:25:53 > 0:26:01# But man has come to plough the tide
0:26:01 > 0:26:07# The oak lies on the ground
0:26:07 > 0:26:13# I hear their tires in the fields
0:26:13 > 0:26:20# They drive the stallion down
0:26:20 > 0:26:27# The roses bleed both light and dark
0:26:27 > 0:26:34# The winds do seldom call
0:26:34 > 0:26:42# The running sands recall the time
0:26:42 > 0:26:55# When love was lord of all
0:29:03 > 0:29:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:29:25 > 0:29:28Sam Carter.
0:29:32 > 0:29:36One, two, one, two...
0:29:55 > 0:29:58# My name is Jan the gypsy
0:29:58 > 0:30:00# I travel the land
0:30:00 > 0:30:02# There are no chains about me
0:30:02 > 0:30:05# I am me own man
0:30:05 > 0:30:07# And I tell a fair old story
0:30:07 > 0:30:10# Which I'm sure ain't no surprise
0:30:10 > 0:30:12# Of the places I have been
0:30:12 > 0:30:15# Oh, and they ain't no lies
0:30:15 > 0:30:17# I've never had a proper home
0:30:17 > 0:30:19# Not one like yours is
0:30:19 > 0:30:24# I've nearly always had a caravan with horses
0:30:24 > 0:30:29# I know that you won't believe me Though it is the truth to tell
0:30:29 > 0:30:34# That the living it is hard Oh, but it suits me well
0:30:53 > 0:30:55# I'm a traveller of the seas
0:30:55 > 0:30:58# I am a sailor
0:30:58 > 0:31:00# The ocean has been good to me
0:31:00 > 0:31:02# She ain't no jailer
0:31:02 > 0:31:07# And I tell a fair old story Which I'm sure ain't no surprise
0:31:07 > 0:31:12# Of the places I have sailed Oh, and they ain't no lies
0:31:12 > 0:31:17# I've never had a garden or a place with windows
0:31:17 > 0:31:22# I stand upon the salty deck and watch the wind blow
0:31:22 > 0:31:26# And I know you won't believe me Though it is the truth to tell
0:31:26 > 0:31:31# That the living it is hard Oh, but it suits me well
0:31:50 > 0:31:55# Well, my mother was a fire-eater 'Fore she desert us
0:31:55 > 0:31:59# When I was only seven I joined the circus
0:31:59 > 0:32:04# And I tell you a fair old story Which I'm sure ain't no surprise
0:32:04 > 0:32:09# Of the places I have played Oh, and they ain't no lies
0:32:09 > 0:32:11# I've never had no money
0:32:11 > 0:32:14# No hope to get none
0:32:14 > 0:32:18# But I can always find a penny When there is good reason
0:32:18 > 0:32:23# And I know you won't believe me Though it is the truth to tell
0:32:23 > 0:32:28# That the living it is hard Oh, but it suits me well
0:33:30 > 0:33:32CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:33:32 > 0:33:34Dave Swarbrick, ladies and gentlemen!
0:33:34 > 0:33:38APPLAUSE
0:33:38 > 0:33:41It feels really good to be onstage with a bunch of musicians,
0:33:41 > 0:33:44both those that played with Sandy, like Dave Swarbrick
0:33:44 > 0:33:49and Jerry Donahue, but also younger generation like Joan and Lavinia.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52It's great to have the mix.
0:33:52 > 0:33:55It's not about trying to recreate something and do a lesser job,
0:33:55 > 0:33:58cos first of all, we don't have Sandy,
0:33:58 > 0:34:03so it's best to try to find another way of doing it that's fresh.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07It is amazing how it opens up when other people sing it too.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09I almost burst into tears when I heard PP Arnold
0:34:09 > 0:34:14singing the songs, simply because she's such an amazing soul singer
0:34:14 > 0:34:17and every time she performs she does something different with it
0:34:17 > 0:34:20and you just think she's taken it to the final stage
0:34:20 > 0:34:22and then she takes it one step further.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Also to hear Maddy sing the songs is really beautiful as well,
0:34:25 > 0:34:27because she's got such an English style.
0:34:27 > 0:34:29They're so diametrically opposed but they work so well.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56# My shadow follows me
0:34:56 > 0:34:58# Wherever I should chance to go
0:35:01 > 0:35:05# John the Gun did say
0:35:06 > 0:35:11# And if you should chance to meet me
0:35:11 > 0:35:13# As I wander to and fro
0:35:16 > 0:35:19# Sad would be your day
0:35:21 > 0:35:25# My life is mine and the guns, they shine
0:35:25 > 0:35:29# To take what goes before me
0:35:30 > 0:35:35# Never shall I never fall
0:35:35 > 0:35:38# Ideals of peace are gold
0:35:38 > 0:35:44# Which fools have found Upon the plains of war
0:35:45 > 0:35:51# I shall destroy them all
0:35:51 > 0:35:54# Put away your guns of steel
0:35:54 > 0:35:58# Death comes too soon for all
0:35:58 > 0:36:02# Your master, he may need you soon
0:36:03 > 0:36:11# And you must heed his call
0:36:13 > 0:36:17# I am the master of the games
0:36:17 > 0:36:21# That you will hardly ever play
0:36:21 > 0:36:27# So I will teach your sons
0:36:27 > 0:36:29# And if they should die
0:36:29 > 0:36:34# Before the evening of their span of days
0:36:35 > 0:36:41# Why, then they will die young
0:36:41 > 0:36:45# So put away your guns of steel
0:36:45 > 0:36:49# Death comes too soon for all
0:36:49 > 0:36:54# Your master, he may need you soon
0:36:54 > 0:36:59# And you must heed his call
0:36:59 > 0:37:04# Heed his call
0:37:54 > 0:37:58# I am condemned for always
0:37:58 > 0:38:02# I will play the game of war
0:38:03 > 0:38:08# In moonshine or in sun
0:38:09 > 0:38:14# And if you should cross the path I choose to tread
0:38:14 > 0:38:17# Your chances, they are poor
0:38:18 > 0:38:24# My name is John the Gun!
0:38:24 > 0:38:28# Put away your guns of steel
0:38:28 > 0:38:31# Death comes too soon for all
0:38:31 > 0:38:37# Your master, he may need you soon
0:38:37 > 0:38:47# And you must heed his call. #
0:39:03 > 0:39:07APPLAUSE
0:39:16 > 0:39:17Mary, Queen of Scots.
0:39:19 > 0:39:24She threw herself on the mercy of Elizabeth I of England
0:39:24 > 0:39:26while she was fleeing her enemies
0:39:26 > 0:39:28and it turned out to be a bit of a mistake.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32She was 18 years in prison
0:39:32 > 0:39:36before Elizabeth finally signed the death warrant,
0:39:36 > 0:39:42and Sandy wrote this piece about the evening before the execution.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45We like cheerful subjects.
0:39:45 > 0:39:46LAUGHTER
0:40:02 > 0:40:05# How often she has gazed
0:40:05 > 0:40:09# From castle windows o'er
0:40:09 > 0:40:12# To see the daylight passing
0:40:12 > 0:40:15# Within her captive walls
0:40:15 > 0:40:18# And no-one
0:40:18 > 0:40:22# To heed her call
0:40:28 > 0:40:31# The evening light is fading
0:40:31 > 0:40:35# Within the dwindling sun
0:40:35 > 0:40:38# And in a lonely moment
0:40:38 > 0:40:42# Those embers will be gone
0:40:42 > 0:40:50# And the last of all the young birds flown
0:40:54 > 0:40:58# Her days of precious freedom
0:40:58 > 0:41:02# Forfeited long before
0:41:02 > 0:41:05# To live such fruitless years
0:41:05 > 0:41:09# Behind a guarded door
0:41:09 > 0:41:19# But those days will last no more
0:42:12 > 0:42:16# Tomorrow at this hour
0:42:16 > 0:42:19# She will be far away
0:42:19 > 0:42:24# Much further than these islands...
0:42:24 > 0:42:29# Or the lonely Fotheringay. #
0:43:07 > 0:43:11APPLAUSE
0:43:23 > 0:43:28Now we've got a special, extra, wonderful moment.
0:43:28 > 0:43:30Someone who worked with Ike and Tina Turner,
0:43:30 > 0:43:36did the first recording of First Cut Is The Deepest from Cat Stevens,
0:43:36 > 0:43:40worked with Nick Drake and Roger Waters, loads of other people.
0:43:40 > 0:43:44Please welcome to the stage the wonderful, talented PP Arnold.
0:43:44 > 0:43:45Thank you.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49APPLAUSE
0:43:57 > 0:43:59Good evening, London.
0:43:59 > 0:44:01CHEERING
0:44:02 > 0:44:06My first song is going to be I'm A Dreamer.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29# You make me nervous
0:44:29 > 0:44:32# When I see you
0:44:33 > 0:44:39# I can't imagine what it's like to be you
0:44:39 > 0:44:46# It's a mystery to me every day
0:44:46 > 0:44:50# And I've got to get away
0:44:55 > 0:44:58# I put a bet on
0:44:58 > 0:45:00# With a bookie
0:45:02 > 0:45:08# For the race they put on over in Kentucky
0:45:08 > 0:45:12# It's lovely at this time of year
0:45:12 > 0:45:14# So they say
0:45:14 > 0:45:19# And I've got to get away
0:45:25 > 0:45:30# I'm a dreamer and you know
0:45:30 > 0:45:36# I'm a schemer with an eye for a show
0:45:36 > 0:45:40# It's my imagination
0:45:40 > 0:45:43# When I get low
0:45:45 > 0:45:51# And the truth is I don't think I'll ever go
0:45:52 > 0:45:56# When the music's playing
0:45:56 > 0:45:58# That's when it changes
0:45:59 > 0:46:06# And no longer do we seem like total strangers
0:46:06 > 0:46:11# It's all those words which always get in the way
0:46:11 > 0:46:16# Of what you want to say
0:46:17 > 0:46:19# Yeah
0:46:19 > 0:46:24# And when I wake up
0:46:24 > 0:46:28# In the morning
0:46:28 > 0:46:34# I think it only fair to give you warning
0:46:34 > 0:46:40# I probably won't go away
0:46:40 > 0:46:44# I'll more than likely stay
0:46:45 > 0:46:47# Yeah
0:46:48 > 0:46:54# Cos I'm a dreamer and you know
0:46:55 > 0:47:02# I'm a schemer with an eye for a show
0:47:02 > 0:47:05# It's my imagination
0:47:05 > 0:47:08# When I get low
0:47:10 > 0:47:15# And the truth is I don't think I'll ever go
0:47:15 > 0:47:18# Oh-hooo!
0:47:18 > 0:47:22# I'm a dreamer and you know
0:47:24 > 0:47:29# That I'm a schemer with an eye for a show
0:47:29 > 0:47:34# It's my imagination
0:47:34 > 0:47:37# When I get low
0:47:38 > 0:47:46# And the truth is I don't think I'll ever go
0:47:50 > 0:47:54# Ay-ay, yeah
0:47:55 > 0:47:56# Uh!
0:48:17 > 0:48:20# Oh, yeaaah!
0:48:20 > 0:48:23# I'm a dreamer
0:48:23 > 0:48:25# Hey!
0:48:25 > 0:48:27# And you know it
0:48:33 > 0:48:36# It's my imagination
0:48:36 > 0:48:39# When I get low. #
0:48:53 > 0:48:54- APPLAUSE - Thank you.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09Thank you so much.
0:49:22 > 0:49:27So, the very first record I bought with my own pocket money
0:49:27 > 0:49:33was an Island Records sampler called Nice Enough To Eat.
0:49:33 > 0:49:34CHEERING
0:49:34 > 0:49:36It was good, wasn't it?
0:49:36 > 0:49:40It cost 15 shillings and sixpence, one or two of you may remember.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42I was 14 years old.
0:49:42 > 0:49:46I can't remember how many times I had to wash my dad's car
0:49:46 > 0:49:49or go to the off licence for my mum to earn 15 and six.
0:49:49 > 0:49:50LAUGHTER
0:49:50 > 0:49:55But the first track on that album was a Fairport track,
0:49:55 > 0:49:58and I adored it from the very beginning.
0:49:58 > 0:50:05Later that same year, Liege & Lief was released, which changed my life.
0:50:05 > 0:50:10So it's a very exciting and scary thing to be up here tonight.
0:50:32 > 0:50:38# My friend, I know you've suffered
0:50:38 > 0:50:42# Even though you are still young
0:50:42 > 0:50:48# Why was it you who would not take help
0:50:48 > 0:50:53# From anyone?
0:50:58 > 0:51:03# Oh, it's true It's very true, he said
0:51:03 > 0:51:08# Some hard times I have known
0:51:08 > 0:51:14# But I have always overcome them
0:51:14 > 0:51:18# On my own
0:51:49 > 0:51:54# Oh, the pearls that you hold in your hand
0:51:54 > 0:51:59# They are beautiful to see
0:51:59 > 0:52:04# But you show them not to anyone
0:52:04 > 0:52:09# Not even me
0:52:13 > 0:52:18# Oh, you're like the others, he said
0:52:18 > 0:52:23# I never can be sure
0:52:23 > 0:52:28# That you wish just to see the pearls
0:52:28 > 0:52:31# And nothing more
0:53:03 > 0:53:08# Why can you not see reason?
0:53:09 > 0:53:13# Our lives, they are not long
0:53:13 > 0:53:17# Why can you take no time
0:53:17 > 0:53:21# To tell us all we're wrong?
0:53:28 > 0:53:33# My tune, it does not change He said
0:53:33 > 0:53:37# And neither does your song
0:53:37 > 0:53:44# And words, I use them rarely
0:53:44 > 0:53:51# When I'm all alone. #
0:54:11 > 0:54:16Thank you very much. APPLAUSE
0:54:19 > 0:54:22I was a huge Fotheringay fan too, so, you know,
0:54:22 > 0:54:25Jerry playing guitar next to me, it's scary.
0:54:25 > 0:54:29Sometimes I have to pinch myself - break for a solo, Jerry Donahue.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31Like, what's going on?
0:54:31 > 0:54:36'It's really a great vibe to revisit those songs.'
0:54:36 > 0:54:41I really had to relearn them again, reacquaint myself with the tunes,
0:54:41 > 0:54:44but it is a very special feeling.
0:54:44 > 0:54:49It's one of the happiest moments of my career, working with Sandy.
0:54:49 > 0:54:52# Oh, I can't get up I won't get up
0:54:52 > 0:54:54# I can't get up for my life... #
0:54:54 > 0:54:58I was never around to see Sandy, cos Sandy died in the '70s.
0:54:58 > 0:55:03But I grew up with her music, cos my dad was in Fairport with Sandy,
0:55:03 > 0:55:05so I grew up with Sandy's voice.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07# But you will have the better of them
0:55:07 > 0:55:09# And I will have the worse. #
0:55:09 > 0:55:13It's kind of poignant for it to come full-circle in the sense that
0:55:13 > 0:55:16if Sandy could see what we're doing now,
0:55:16 > 0:55:20she'd find it weird that Ashley's son was doing her music, I suppose.
0:55:51 > 0:55:58# Do I ever wonder?
0:55:58 > 0:56:01# You don't know
0:56:03 > 0:56:07# You'll never follow
0:56:07 > 0:56:12# And I'll never show
0:56:14 > 0:56:18# Do you see the water
0:56:18 > 0:56:23# And watch it flow and float an empty shell?
0:56:26 > 0:56:29# And do you think that I'm hiding
0:56:29 > 0:56:34# From the island?
0:56:34 > 0:56:39# You've a fault in your senses
0:56:41 > 0:56:46# Can you feel it now?
0:56:54 > 0:56:59# Time, what is that?
0:56:59 > 0:57:03# I have no time to care
0:57:08 > 0:57:12# I've lived for a long while
0:57:12 > 0:57:14# Nearly everywhere
0:57:19 > 0:57:23# You will be taken
0:57:23 > 0:57:26# Everyone
0:57:26 > 0:57:29# You ladies and you gentlemen
0:57:31 > 0:57:34# Fall and listen with your ears
0:57:34 > 0:57:39# On the paving stone
0:57:39 > 0:57:43# Is that what you hear?
0:57:47 > 0:57:50# The coming of the sea?
0:59:05 > 0:59:15# The sea flows under your doors in London Town
0:59:20 > 0:59:27# And all your defences are all broken down
0:59:30 > 0:59:36# You laugh at me on funny days
0:59:36 > 0:59:40# But mine's the sleight of hand
0:59:42 > 0:59:46# Don't you know I am a joker
0:59:46 > 0:59:51# A deceiver?
0:59:51 > 0:59:55# And I'm waiting
0:59:59 > 1:00:06# For the la-a-and. #
1:00:27 > 1:00:29- APPLAUSE - Thank you.
1:00:43 > 1:00:45Now it's my great honour to introduce you
1:00:45 > 1:00:48to my friend from New York City.
1:00:48 > 1:00:52She's so rad, you're going to love her. Joan As Police Woman.
1:00:52 > 1:00:54APPLAUSE
1:01:16 > 1:01:23# The lady, she had a silver tongue
1:01:23 > 1:01:28# For to sing, she said
1:01:28 > 1:01:33# And maybe that's all
1:01:33 > 1:01:37# Wait for the dawn
1:01:37 > 1:01:41# We will have that song
1:01:41 > 1:01:51# When it ends, it will seem that we hear silence fall
1:02:01 > 1:02:08# The lady, she had a golden heart
1:02:08 > 1:02:13# For to love, she said
1:02:13 > 1:02:18# And she did not lie
1:02:18 > 1:02:21# Wait for the dawn
1:02:21 > 1:02:25# And we'll watch for the sun
1:02:25 > 1:02:27# As we turn
1:02:27 > 1:02:36# It will seem to rise in the sky
1:03:37 > 1:03:40# We heard that song
1:03:40 > 1:03:44# While watching the skies
1:03:44 > 1:03:47# Oh, the sound, it rang
1:03:47 > 1:03:54# So clear through the cold
1:03:54 > 1:03:57# Then silence fell
1:03:57 > 1:04:02# And the sun did arise
1:04:02 > 1:04:05# On a beautiful morning
1:04:05 > 1:04:14# Of silver and go-o-old. #
1:04:57 > 1:05:00APPLAUSE
1:05:00 > 1:05:05'One of the songs that I'm doing is No More Sad Refrains,'
1:05:05 > 1:05:09and when I was practising this song at my house on my piano,
1:05:09 > 1:05:14I had to work to not start crying in the middle of singing it,
1:05:14 > 1:05:17because even though the lyric is quite...
1:05:17 > 1:05:22If you just read it, it sounds positive, but with the music,
1:05:22 > 1:05:24oh, God, it's just heart-wrenching.
1:05:27 > 1:05:31# Here comes the morning
1:05:31 > 1:05:35# How it pleases
1:05:38 > 1:05:42# It always brings me something new
1:05:46 > 1:05:51# The golden light will wash away
1:05:51 > 1:05:55# The dust of yesterday
1:05:55 > 1:05:58# And if I try
1:05:58 > 1:06:07# It may let me forget you
1:06:22 > 1:06:30# And when these winter days are over
1:06:32 > 1:06:39# I mean to set myself upon my feet
1:06:41 > 1:06:46# I see me as something
1:06:46 > 1:06:51# That I have never been
1:06:51 > 1:06:55# And I'll pick up the pieces
1:06:55 > 1:07:00# That will make
1:07:00 > 1:07:07# The girl complete
1:08:10 > 1:08:15# I'll be smiling all the time
1:08:15 > 1:08:20# At everybody
1:08:22 > 1:08:30# My friends will tell me I'm just not the same
1:08:32 > 1:08:36# I won't linger over
1:08:36 > 1:08:42# Any tragedies that were
1:08:42 > 1:08:50# And I won't be singing any more
1:08:50 > 1:08:58# Sad refrains. #
1:09:37 > 1:09:40APPLAUSE
1:10:02 > 1:10:04Thank you.
1:10:04 > 1:10:09One of the things that I love the most about Sandy Denny's music
1:10:09 > 1:10:11is its ability to transcend generations.
1:10:13 > 1:10:15And, erm...
1:10:15 > 1:10:17APPLAUSE
1:10:21 > 1:10:28I'd like to introduce you to my son on second violin.
1:10:28 > 1:10:30Egan Stonier, age five.
1:10:30 > 1:10:31APPLAUSE
1:10:37 > 1:10:43So this, to me, this song really sums up what Sandy means to me, at least.
1:10:43 > 1:10:45It's called Don't Stop Singing.
1:10:48 > 1:10:51OK, one, two, one, two, three.
1:11:07 > 1:11:12# It's so late it's tomorrow
1:11:12 > 1:11:15# There's nothing new hidden in my eyes
1:11:15 > 1:11:19# In a light frosty cover
1:11:19 > 1:11:23# It's the first day that's so hard
1:11:23 > 1:11:27# It's the first day that's so hard
1:11:27 > 1:11:31# So don't stop singing
1:11:31 > 1:11:35# Don't stop singing
1:11:35 > 1:11:39# Don't stop singing
1:11:39 > 1:11:43# Don't stop singing till you drop
1:11:43 > 1:11:47# The central heating pipes are banging
1:11:47 > 1:11:51# I kept thinking it's the car
1:11:51 > 1:11:55# But if I keep up with my singing
1:11:55 > 1:12:00# I won't be wondering where you are
1:12:00 > 1:12:03# I won't be wondering where you are
1:12:03 > 1:12:07# So don't stop singing
1:12:07 > 1:12:10# Don't stop singing
1:12:11 > 1:12:15# Don't stop singing
1:12:15 > 1:12:19# Don't stop singing till you drop
1:12:38 > 1:12:42# Now don't stop singing
1:12:42 > 1:12:46# Don't stop singing
1:12:46 > 1:12:50# Don't stop singing
1:12:50 > 1:12:52# Don't stop singing till you drop
1:12:54 > 1:12:57# Don't stop singing
1:12:57 > 1:13:01# Don't stop singing
1:13:01 > 1:13:05# Don't stop singing
1:13:05 > 1:13:08# Don't stop singing till you drop
1:13:08 > 1:13:15# Don't stop singing till you drop. #
1:13:20 > 1:13:21APPLAUSE
1:13:21 > 1:13:23Egan Stonier.
1:13:43 > 1:13:46I've got a sad song for you. Are you surprised about that?
1:13:46 > 1:13:49You know, there's some sad songs kicking around
1:13:49 > 1:13:50in Sandy's back catalogue but, erm,
1:13:50 > 1:13:52they're also great songs, a lot of them.
1:13:52 > 1:13:56So, erm, this is called Bushes And Briars.
1:14:13 > 1:14:17# I can't believe that it's so cold
1:14:17 > 1:14:20# And there ain't been no snow
1:14:20 > 1:14:24# The sound of music, it comes to me
1:14:24 > 1:14:27# From every place I go
1:14:27 > 1:14:31# Sunday morning there's no-one in church
1:14:31 > 1:14:34# But the clergy's chosen man
1:14:34 > 1:14:39# And he is fine I won't worry about him
1:14:39 > 1:14:44# He's got the book in his hand
1:14:47 > 1:14:49# Well, there's a bitter east wind
1:14:49 > 1:14:51# And the fields are swaying
1:14:51 > 1:14:54# The crows around their nests
1:14:54 > 1:14:58# And I wonder what he's in there saying
1:14:58 > 1:15:02# To all those souls at rest
1:15:02 > 1:15:05# I see the path and the key to the door
1:15:05 > 1:15:09# And the clergy's chosen man
1:15:09 > 1:15:11# Where are they now?
1:15:11 > 1:15:13# Thistles and thorns
1:15:13 > 1:15:17# Among the sand
1:15:29 > 1:15:32# Well, I wonder if he knows I'm here
1:15:32 > 1:15:36# Watching the briars grow
1:15:36 > 1:15:39# And all these people beneath my shoes
1:15:39 > 1:15:43# I wonder if they know
1:15:43 > 1:15:47# There was a time when every last one
1:15:47 > 1:15:50# Knew a clergy's chosen man
1:15:50 > 1:15:52# Where are they now?
1:15:52 > 1:15:54# Thistles and thorns
1:15:54 > 1:15:59# Among the sand
1:16:03 > 1:16:07# I can't believe that it's so cold
1:16:07 > 1:16:10# And there ain't been no snow
1:16:10 > 1:16:14# The sound of music it comes to me
1:16:14 > 1:16:18# From every place I go
1:16:18 > 1:16:21# Sunday morning there's no-one in church
1:16:21 > 1:16:25# But the clergy's chosen man
1:16:25 > 1:16:26# Bushes and briars
1:16:26 > 1:16:29# Thistles and thorns
1:16:29 > 1:16:34# Among the sand. #
1:16:41 > 1:16:44APPLAUSE
1:16:50 > 1:16:53Who Knows Where The Time Goes is such a well-known song, that had a life
1:16:53 > 1:16:57of its own and ended up being covered by an extraordinary amount of people.
1:16:57 > 1:17:01It's just a fantastically shaped... From a songwriter's point of view,
1:17:01 > 1:17:03that's a pretty stunning piece of work.
1:17:03 > 1:17:06It's definitely a landmark song. The song that in some ways defines her.
1:17:06 > 1:17:09She wrote that when she was very young,
1:17:09 > 1:17:11amongst the first batch of songs that she ever wrote.
1:17:11 > 1:17:14I think it's one of the greatest songs that there is.
1:17:16 > 1:17:20# Across the evening sky
1:17:20 > 1:17:26# All the birds are leaving
1:17:28 > 1:17:33# But how can they know
1:17:33 > 1:17:39# It's time for them to go?
1:17:41 > 1:17:48# Before the winter fire
1:17:48 > 1:17:52# I will still be dreaming
1:17:57 > 1:18:02# I have no thought of time
1:18:05 > 1:18:13ALL: # For who knows where the time goes?
1:18:15 > 1:18:28# Who knows where the time goes?
1:18:40 > 1:18:45# Sad, deserted shore
1:18:45 > 1:18:51# Your fickle friends are leaving
1:18:53 > 1:18:57# Ah, but then they know
1:18:57 > 1:19:04# It's time for them to go
1:19:06 > 1:19:10# But I will still be here
1:19:12 > 1:19:17# I have no thought of leaving
1:19:17 > 1:19:21# No, no, no, no, no, no, no
1:19:21 > 1:19:25# I do not count the time
1:19:30 > 1:19:37ALL: # For who knows where the time goes?
1:19:39 > 1:19:50# Who knows where the time goes?
1:20:16 > 1:20:21# And I am not alone
1:20:21 > 1:20:27# While my love is near me
1:20:29 > 1:20:39# I know it will be so until it's time to go
1:20:41 > 1:20:46# So come the storms of winter
1:20:48 > 1:20:53# And then the birds in spring again
1:20:57 > 1:21:05# I have no fear of time
1:21:06 > 1:21:14ALL: # Who knows where the time goes?
1:21:15 > 1:21:28# Who knows where the time goes? #
1:21:43 > 1:21:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:21:52 > 1:21:59# Who knows where the time goes?
1:22:01 > 1:22:16# Who knows where the time goes? #
1:22:16 > 1:22:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:22:21 > 1:22:24'I think the idea was to get different approaches on the songs.'
1:22:24 > 1:22:28You have to strip the song back to the bones to reinterpret
1:22:28 > 1:22:31and I think that's what everybody's done.
1:22:31 > 1:22:35Joan's version of No More Sad Refrains is very touching
1:22:35 > 1:22:39and then at the other end you've got PP Arnold doing Take Me Away
1:22:39 > 1:22:41in a completely different style.
1:22:41 > 1:22:43It's really nice that the songs are being looked at
1:22:43 > 1:22:45from a different perspective.
1:22:45 > 1:22:48# There'll be rain clouds
1:22:48 > 1:22:50# For harvest to grow... #
1:22:50 > 1:22:53Sandy certainly will be remembered and I think,
1:22:53 > 1:22:57as far as I can tell, respect for her is growing.
1:22:57 > 1:23:02Her singing is so tender but she's got balls, she's totally got balls.
1:23:02 > 1:23:05She's special today and will be for a lot more days to come.
1:23:05 > 1:23:07She was a very funny person, you know,
1:23:07 > 1:23:11very bright, very quick witted. Very funny.
1:23:11 > 1:23:14Most of the stuff I couldn't possibly tell you.
1:23:16 > 1:23:24# Such sweet love is so hard to find
1:23:24 > 1:23:30# Look around These are troublesome times
1:23:31 > 1:23:38# The sun beats down on our hunger and thirst
1:23:38 > 1:23:45# It would soon all be over if we let it be worse
1:23:45 > 1:23:51# Take me away
1:23:52 > 1:23:57# Take me away
1:23:59 > 1:24:06# Take me away
1:24:06 > 1:24:13# Take me away
1:24:13 > 1:24:17# If not for you, baby
1:24:17 > 1:24:22# How would I keep going?
1:24:22 > 1:24:25# No-one to be near
1:24:25 > 1:24:29# No good fortune to know
1:24:29 > 1:24:36# Take my hand Make me feel stronger
1:24:36 > 1:24:44# You're a man and progress is slow
1:24:44 > 1:24:50# Take me away
1:24:50 > 1:24:58# Take me away
1:24:58 > 1:25:05# Take me away
1:25:05 > 1:25:13# Take me away
1:26:11 > 1:26:17# There will be rain clouds for harvest to grow
1:26:18 > 1:26:25# We'll find the rain clouds and the rivers will flow
1:26:25 > 1:26:32# Leave what is past Search for the future
1:26:32 > 1:26:40# Leave this black dream for it's high time to go...
1:26:40 > 1:26:45# Take me away
1:26:47 > 1:26:53# Take me away
1:26:53 > 1:26:56# Take me away
1:26:56 > 1:27:01# Take me away
1:27:01 > 1:27:08- # Baby, take me away - Take me away
1:27:08 > 1:27:12# Take me away
1:27:12 > 1:27:15# Please take me away
1:27:15 > 1:27:22- # Baby, take me away - Take me away
1:27:22 > 1:27:28- # Oh, take me away - Take me away
1:27:30 > 1:27:35- # Take me away - Take me away
1:27:35 > 1:27:38# Come on, come one
1:27:38 > 1:27:40- # Oh - Take me away
1:27:40 > 1:27:44# Take me away
1:27:44 > 1:27:51# Please take me away
1:27:51 > 1:27:58# Take me away
1:27:58 > 1:28:07# Take me away
1:28:07 > 1:28:09# Oh yeah. #
1:28:11 > 1:28:13Thank you.
1:28:13 > 1:28:19CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:28:29 > 1:28:32APPLAUSE
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