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	Ewan MacColl : His Life and Works
		Ewan MacColl was born Jimmie Miller in Salford, Lancashire, in 1915.
		MacColl always insisted that the task of creating a popular theatre is one which cannot be solved merely by changing the class background of the hero(ine)s or by introducing technical and stylistic innovations.
		The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook was published in the Summer of 2001.
	www.pegseeger.com /html/ewan.html (2005 words)

	Ewan MacColl, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Ewan MacColl may well have been the most influential person in the current British folksong revival.
		MacColl left school at fourteen to busk and act in the streets and was quickly discovered by the BBC.
		MacColl was married to Peggy Seeger, herself a singer of folk songs (and half-sister to American icon Pete Seeger).
	www.emusic.com /artist/10556/10556099.html (544 words)

	Ewan MacColl
		Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) was a Scottish playwright, poet, actor and folk-singer.
		MacColl's abiding interest was in folk music, and he collected traditional ballads.
		However, in 1956, MacColl caused a scandal by leaving his then second wife Jean Newlove for Peggy Seeger[?], who was many years his junior.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ew/Ewan_MacColl.html (221 words)

	Ewan Maccoll - Music Downloads - Online
		MacColl left school at fourteen to busk and act in the streets and was quickly discovered by the BBC.
		MacColl was married to Peggy Seeger, herself a singer of folk songs (and half-sister to American icon Pete Seeger).
		Together MacColl and Seeger, sometimes accompanied by their children, who are also skilled musicians and singers, have recorded quite a few albums as well.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/536/Ewan-Maccoll/30006040.html (460 words)

	Amazon.ca: Black and White: The Definitive Collection: Music: Ewan MacColl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MacColl was a renaissance man of folk music, not as well known as Seeger or Guthrie, but in many ways just as important.
		Maccoll's language is so spare and precise that it cuts right to the essence of the emotions and experiences he describes.
		MacColl's singing suits his music; Seeger's is definitely an acquired taste, and their harmonies are raw, with the almost Appalachian sound characteristic of theeraly folk revival.
	www.amazon.ca /Black-White-Definitive-Ewan-MacColl/dp/B0000001ZU (725 words)

	ewan maccoll topic records
		Ewan MacColl was one of the architects of the folksong revival.
		In this collection MacColl ranges from the cattle-rusting border raiders of the Middle Ages and the 18th-century highwayman Dick Turpin to the notorious murder trials of Craig and Bentley and Timothy Evans in the 1950s.
		They reflect the broad spectrum of Ewan MacColl's interest in folk song and balladry; from the picaresque 18th century adventures of Alan Tyne o' Harrow to the political propaganda of The Bonny Bunch Of Roses.
	www.topicrecords.co.uk /Index_Link_Files/ewan_maccoll_topic_records.html (314 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Why MI5 monitored singer Ewan MacColl
		Ewan MacColl was born James Miller, in Salford, Manchester, and changed his name after WWII.
		One report returned to the spymasters in London remarked that while MacColl had "exceptional ability as a singer and musical organiser", he was very clearly "a communist with very extreme views" who needed "special attention".
		In the run-up to war, MacColl, along with his first wife Joan Littlewood, was contributing to BBC radio programmes while also drawing crowds to political plays at venues across north-west England.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4772328.stm (806 words)

	Ewan MacColl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MacColl was born "James (Jimmie) Henry Miller" in Salford, Lancashire in England, to Scottish parents, William and Betsy Miller.
		In 1956, MacColl caused a scandal by leaving his then second wife, Jean Newlove, the mother of his children, Hamish and Kirsty, for Peggy Seeger, who was many years his junior.
		MacColl wrote the scripts and the songs, as well as, with the others, collecting the field recordings which were the heart of the productions.
	www.artistopia.com /ewan-maccoll (1178 words)

	Ewan MacColl : Historical Figures and Perthshire
		Ewan MacColl (1915 - 1989) the singer, songwriter and playwright was born James Miller.
		Ewan MacColl's family were musical and he was taught many folk songs as a child.
		Ewan MacColl's daughter Kirsty MacColl continued the family musical tradition until her untimely death in December 2000: "There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis", a duet with The Pogues "Fairytale Of New York" and much much more.
	www.strathearn.com /ge/f-maccoll.htm (246 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Black and White: the Definitive Ewan Maccoll Collection: Music: Ewan MacColl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In a career that spanned more than half of the 20th century, there wasn't much that folk legend Ewan MacColl didn't do.Here was a man who would take the stage with nothing but a microphone and a twinkle in his eye and leave a room full ofstamping feet.
		MacColl's voice leaps into action with "The Manchester Rambler", one of his most memorable protest songs, and shivers with reproach at the incest ballad"Sheath & Knife".
		MacColl was the inspiration for many, many, many (and possibly most!) of today's folk singers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Black-White-Definitive-Maccoll-Collection/dp/B0000001ZU (419 words)

	Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl letter - The Living Tradition Magazine Editorial Issue 40
		Bert was singing English, Australian, N. American and Scottish songs; Ewan was singing 'Sixteen Tons' and 'Sam Bass' alongside 'Eppie Morrie' and 'The Banks of the Nile'; I regularly sang French, German and Dutch songs alongside 'Barbara Allan' and 'Cumberland Gap'.
		Ewan MacColl was one step nearer to being a folksinger than I, having been brought up in a Scots community in Salford.
		It is possible that they have inherited some of Ewan's intransigence and argumentative temperament (that's the way things go?) but there is no doubt that their work in the folksong world has been invaluable and dedicated.
	www.folkmusic.net /htmfiles/edtxt39.htm (1536 words)

	Ewan MacColl: 1915-1989 A political journey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ewan MacColl will be known to the most people as a songwriter, and as a singer, but he was also of significant influence in the worlds of theatre and radio broadcasting.
		Ewan MacColl was Salford born and bred and, in the early 1930's, a political comrade of Eddie Frow (co-founder of the WCML).
		An archive relating to the music and work of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger was established by Peggy Seeger at Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1991.
	www.wcml.org.uk /people/em/timeline.htm (568 words)

	Ewan MacColl : OLDIES.com
		The singing talents of his parents enabled MacColl to learn many of their songs while he was still young.
		Having left school at the age of 14, MacColl joined the Salford Clarion Players, and by the age of 16 he was already actively involved in street theatre.
		His lifelong allegiance to the Communist Party was influenced by his first-hand experiences during the Depression years, and by seeing the effects of the era on his own father and others around him.
	www.oldies.com /artist-view/Ewan-MacColl.html (190 words)

	Green Left - Ewan MacColl: from theatre to folk club
		In 1939 it was stopped by the police, and MacColl and Littlewood were arrested and charged with “disturbing the peace”.
		MacColl, as its major writer and theorist, insisted that merely changing the class background of the hero or introducing technical and stylistic innovations was inadequate for creating popular theatre.
		Rather the reverse is true; by stressing particular speech rhythms, varieties of idiom and types of cadences, MacColl constantly sought to change the perspectives of action; he never allowed the actor-audience relationship to become static.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1997/290/16002 (1001 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Antiquities: Music: Ewan MacColl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This background enabled Ewan to bring a real GIFT for storytelling to ALL his musical compositions, many of which were written to accompany his original plays.
		MacColl's mastery as a poetic, compelling storyteller has today earned him accolades not just from the general public, but notably from a virtual who's who of contemporary songwriters.
		Ewan MacColl was richly deserving of the title "Founding Father Of British Folk Music".
	www.amazon.co.uk /Antiquities-Ewan-MacColl/dp/B00000DHTH (910 words)

	Ewan Maccoll News
		Peggy Seeger, half-sister to Pete, was married to Ewan MacColl.
		Ewan MacColl, the celebrated folk musician and father of singer Kirsty, was tracked by the security services for more than 20 years on the grounds he was a dangerous radical.
		ALMOST 50 years ago, the radical singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl and a maverick BBC producer, Charles Parker, created a series of radio programmes which broke the mould of broadcasting by bringing ordinary...
	www.topix.net /who/ewan-maccoll (476 words)

	Peter Bellamy influences: Ewan MacColl
		One of the most influential and controversial influences upon the revival, Ewan MacColl was born Jimmy Miller, the son of a Scots ironworker, but he was brought up in Salford, Lancashire.
		As a performer, he started with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, for whom he wrote a number of remarkable plays, before starting his Ballads and Blues Club, which mutated into the Singers' Club, from which sprang the Critics' Group of singers, whose aim was to improve their performance using mutual criticism and study of traditional styles.
		As a songwriter, his lyrics were much influenced by the actuality he recorded while making the epoch-making Radio Ballads for the BBC, giving his songs a gritty, almost conversational realism denied to many other attempts to write "in the folk idiom".
	www.bens.connectfree.co.uk /pb/MACCOL.HTM (127 words)

	Ewan MacColl: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		There are national treasures and there are global treasures; Scotland's Ewan MacColl falls into the latter category.
		A staunch supporter of the arts, folklorist, playwright, and activist, MacColl has a body of work that is staggering in scope and detail, and The Definitive Collection is a fantastic starting point for those interested in his contributions to the English and Scottish folk revival.
		A longtime member of the late Ewan MacColl's Critic's Group, Armstrong has been a frequent performer at folk festivals throughout Great Britain and the United States.
	www.music.com /person/ewan_maccoll/1 (454 words)

	Sweet Thames, Flow Softly by Ewan MacColl Songfacts
		When Ewan MacColl wrote it in 1968, he was inspired by a line from the classic Disney Movie Mary Poppins: "I shall stay until the wind changes." At the time of the song's initial release in 1968, there were only 9 verses.
		By 1970, when the British press got a hold of Ewan's song, rumors in the tabloids reported that it was about a love affair that Ewan was having with another woman while still married to his wife Peggy.
		However, it is the 9 verse version that is most well-known in Ewan MacColl's hometown of Salford, England.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=4655 (271 words)

	Dick Gaughan - Links in the Chain - Ewan MacColl
		When Kirsty MacColl was killed, all the obituaries and news stories described her as the daughter of "the folk-singer Ewan MacColl".
		Describing Ewan MacColl as a folk-singer is one of the most absurd over-simplifications of all time.
		I didn't actually know Ewan very well and only met him a dozen or so times but he was certainly my greatest influence in my teens.
	www.dickgaughan.co.uk /chain/ewan-maccoll.html (825 words)

	Amazon.com: Classic Scots Ballads: Music: Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
		In the notes provided by Peggy Seeger on the occasion of it's reissue she somewhat apologetically states that their attempt to marry these traditionally unaccompanied ballads with popular guitar and banjo was a nieve and ill fated experiment.
		While an American ear may not understand MacColl's Scots lowland dialect, the soulful "dark chocolate" way the love songs are sung make them all heartbreaker's in the most joyous sense of the word.
		Peggy Seeger's embarrassment over her attempted Scottish accent and folk music rhythms are unnecessarily academic in light of the obvious delight they take in singing together, and the spirit it brings to these songs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000058RE/cddb?dev-t=D1MUHTRITQ49ZJ%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2 (1003 words)

	EWAN MACCOLL DISCOGRAPHY
		Peggy Seeger's Web site includes a discography that includes the recordings that she and Ewan MacColl made together (along with most of her other records).
		In addition to these publicly available recordings, Ewan MacColl also made numerous radio and television appearances on the BBC and elsewhere.
		“Narrated and sung by Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger”)
	www.well.com /user/johnross/discographies/ewanmaccoll.htm (2340 words)

	Top Ten Songs by Ewan MacColl: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due - Associated Content
		For those of you who haven’t heard of Ewan MacColl, and therefore (most likely) his music, consider it of great importance.
		It is clearly meant to be both a sign of the times and a jab at the way they heard in and treat workers like animals.
		The Press Gang – Similar to #10 and like most of his songs, this song is written with a purpose, to undermine the ways of the press gangs.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/85570/top_ten_songs_by_ewan_maccoll_giving.html (609 words)

	Peggy Seeger - Latest CDs and Songbooks
		Ewan MacColl played a vital role in the “folk song revival” in Britain.
		"The muse who inspired Ewan MacColl's 'First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' has produced a body of work that is unparalleled in its vehemence and remains a fountain of inspiration in a sea of bogus political correctiveness.
		The series explores the breadth of experience and creation of Seeger and MacColl through excerpts from in-depth interviews with Peggy, Mike and Pete Seeger, Ewan MacColl, Alan Lomax, Studs Terkel and others, combined with the music of Seeger and MacColl, which is the focus throughout.
	www.pegseeger.com /html/about.html (1310 words)

	Ewan MacColl
		Ewan MacColl - Biography, sample pages from the Ewan MacColl Songbook, comments and critiques.
		Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Profile and selective discography of UK folk singers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, from the Slipcue.Com Folk Guide.
		Working Class Movement Library: Ewan MacColl - time line and lyrics.
	www.hotguitarist.com /bands/M/maccoll_ewan.htm (106 words)

	Lyr Add: Schoolday's Over (Ewan MacColl)
		The inevitable end-point of a boy growing up in a mining village was to go down the local pit.
		Ewan manages to express something here of the accepted, because inevitable, symbol of manhood.
		Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:12 AM I doesn't matter what allmusic calls it, Ewan MacColl called it ' Schooldays End ' he should know, he wrote it, check with ' The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook ' edited Peggy Seeger, Oak Publications.
	www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=9894&messages=4 (951 words)

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		A radio ballad initially intended to deal with the psychology of pain, but finally refocused to the subject of polio -- a disease that brings with it a terrible amount of pain, along with its...
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	www.mp3.com /artist/ewan-maccoll/summary (527 words)

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