First Time Ever: A MemoirPeggy Seeger
Gebundene Ausgabe
Peggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics - they remain her lifeblood. After college, she travelled to Russia and China - against U S advice - before arriving in London, where she met the man with whom she would raise three children and share the next thirty-three years: Ewan Mac Coll. Together, they helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival, through the influential Critics Group and the landmark B B C Radio Ballads series. And as Ewan's muse, she inspired one of the twentieth century's most popular love songs, ' The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. With a clear eye and generous spirit, Peggy writes of a rollercoaster life - of birth and abortion, sex and infidelity, devotion and betrayal - in a luminous, beautifully realised account.
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