Sandy Denny book

[Jules Gray]

I understand the Heylin book may be reprinted to coincide with the release of the box-set later in the year.

That's sort of good news and bad news at the same time then.  

Jules

[Philip W]

It's my ambition (truly!) to one day write a book about Sandy that celebrates her contribution to music,

Well, good luck, Mike. I have to say that when I tried, several years ago, to interest publishers in the idea of a book about Sandy I got nowhere. One of them pondered the name for a while, then asked me, "Was she the girl in The Seekers?"

Philip

[davidmjs]

I understand the Heylin book may be reprinted to coincide with the release of the box-set later in the year.

That's sort of good news and bad news at the same time then.  

Jules

Bad news for the booksellers trying to sell the thing at stupid prices anyway (makes mental note to offload his signed copies pronto!)....

(I don't like the book I ought to point out.  Tbh I just think its badly written.  I like his Bootleg book but everything else doesn't do it for me).

[StephenGiles]

I found "No Sad Refrains" to be a good read - on a beach in a hot country if I remember correctly.

[Jules Gray]

Love it or hate it, it's coming back into print:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Sad-Refrains-Sandy/dp/1849386986/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297762672&sr=1-1

Jules

[Edthefolkie]

I may have posted this before, soz if so (brain cells going).

Heylin was at the Troubadour bash for Sandy a couple of years ago and had a boxful of the biog which he was selling for £20, which I suppose is fair enough as even then copies were changing hands at daft prices. He seemed pretty affable. I admit to enjoying the book (which I bought when it came out, not from him....)

But on balance I'm with Swarb and you guys - he veered dangerously close to a hatchet job on Trevor Lucas. I can't say that his portraits of Neil and Edna Denny are particularly kind either. Ask any parent what it's like dealing with their children! In the last analysis stuff like this is secondhand and subjective. Swarb was there - Heylin wasn't. What worries me is that after a while it becomes The Authorised Version.

Mind you, Heylin's book is a treasury of accuracy compared to the wilder shores of Sandy fandom - have you read some of the comments on YouTube? A new Sandy-ite religion is developing! Seems to be a combination of Laura Ashley and one of those weeping Madonna statues, bloody hell.
            

[Shane (Skirky)]

I don't think we can go too far past Swarb's appraisal of the book and its author at http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=26765.0

"I haven't read it" seems to be his actual position.

[jude]

I don't think we can go too far past Swarb's appraisal of the book and its author at http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=26765.0

"I haven't read it" seems to be his actual position.

Well I've read it.. it's a mean book, full of assumptions and untruths.

[Barry]

Well I've read it.. it's a mean book, full of assumptions and untruths.

Which is all I need to know.  I definitely will not be bothering with this one.

I never met Sandy, but I did meet Trevor - and great fun he was, too!