First time ever : a memoir
Seeger, Peggy, 1935-2018
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Total copies: 1
This }Sunday Times{ and }Telegraph{ Book of the Year shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize sees American folk musician Peggy Seeger reflect on her forbidden travels into the communist world, her relationship with Ewan MacColl, the extent to which the two influenced each other and much more in this clear-eyed account of a rollercoaster life. A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZETHE BOOKSELLER'S Most Picked Book in General Non-Fiction Round Ups of 2017Peggy 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 US 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 MacColl. Together, they helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival, through the influential Critics Group and the landmark BBC 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.
Main title:
First time ever : a memoir / Peggy Seeger.
Author:
Seeger, Peggy, 1935-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2018.
Collation:
xiv, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.
ISBN:
9780571336807 (pbk)
Dewey class:
782.421620092
LC class:
ML420.S4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
389636