Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Meeting Sandy Denny
03:32 - The Colony Club
06:34 - Joining Fairport Convention
08:57 - The Unhalfbricking house
10:16 - Leaving Fairport
11:04 - The accident
13:04 - A world-class songwriting talent
16:10 - Nick Drake
17:32 - The younger Thompsons
18:58 - Linda's career journey
21:24 - Living with Tim Buckley
22:19 - The presence of old friends
25:19 - David's favourite record
27:05 - An extraordinary life
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‘Sandy Denny: A People’s History’ has just been published, memories from fellow musicians, old friends, producers, writers, fans and admirers. Linda Thompson met her when they were both 16 and was devoted to her ‘til she died in 1978 – “she’s still with me, I talk to her all the time”. She looks back here at their lives in Soho bars, folk clubs and studios, the world they inhabited and the musicians they both knew. Among the many highlights …
… meeting Sandy in 1966, onstage doing Jackson Frank’s You Never Wanted Me. “Eight million cigarettes a day but such breath control!”
… why her singing and songwriting were unique
… high times at the Colony Club with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon - “famously grumpy”
… “she didn’t put up with bullshit. Cross her and she’d deck you”
… memories of Nick Drake – “spectral and gorgeous”
… the repercussions of the Fairport car crash
… memories of her family home in Wimbledon (on the cover of Unhalfbricking)
… recording ad jingles for Ski Yoghurt and ‘flour so fine, it flows and it flows’ - £15 an hour, “a fortune”
… making demos of Nick Drake songs with Elton John, “so full of Valium I had to be held up to the mic”
… sharing a flat with Tim Buckley in Holland Park
… “anyone who can bear to listen to their own records must be no bloody good”
… and the script Nick Hornby started about the life of Richard and Linda Thompson.
Order ‘Sandy Denny: A People’s History’ here: burningshed.com/georgia-rose-lucas_sandy-denny-a-peoples-history_book
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Meeting Sandy Denny
03:32 - The Colony Club
06:34 - Joining Fairport Convention
08:57 - The Unhalfbricking house
10:16 - Leaving Fairport
11:04 - The accident
13:04 - A world-class songwriting talent
16:10 - Nick Drake
17:32 - The younger Thompsons
18:58 - Linda's career journey
21:24 - Living with Tim Buckley
22:19 - The presence of old friends
25:19 - David's favourite record
27:05 - An extraordinary life
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Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock & Roll going: patreon.com/wordinyourear
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‘Sandy Denny: A People’s History’ has just been published, memories from fellow musicians, old friends, producers, writers, fans and admirers. Linda Thompson met her when they were both 16 and was devoted to her ‘til she died in 1978 – “she’s still with me, I talk to her all the time”. She looks back here at their lives in Soho bars, folk clubs and studios, the world they inhabited and the musicians they both knew. Among the many highlights …
… meeting Sandy in 1966, onstage doing Jackson Frank’s You Never Wanted Me. “Eight million cigarettes a day but such breath control!”
… why her singing and songwriting were unique
… high times at the Colony Club with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon - “famously grumpy”
… “she didn’t put up with bullshit. Cross her and she’d deck you”
… memories of Nick Drake – “spectral and gorgeous”
… the repercussions of the Fairport car crash
… memories of her family home in Wimbledon (on the cover of Unhalfbricking)
… recording ad jingles for Ski Yoghurt and ‘flour so fine, it flows and it flows’ - £15 an hour, “a fortune”
… making demos of Nick Drake songs with Elton John, “so full of Valium I had to be held up to the mic”
… sharing a flat with Tim Buckley in Holland Park
… “anyone who can bear to listen to their own records must be no bloody good”
… and the script Nick Hornby started about the life of Richard and Linda Thompson.
Order ‘Sandy Denny: A People’s History’ here: burningshed.com/georgia-rose-lucas_sandy-denny-a-peoples-history_book
