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Songs Written for Sandy Denny

I know of these songs written for or about Sandy Denny:

• Marc Brierley: Arctic City on his EP Marc Brierley (1966)
• Mandy Morton: Magic Lady on the Spriguns album Magic Lady (1978)
• Dave Cousins: Ringing Down the Years in a Dave Cousins / Brian Willoughby version on the CD Georgia on Our Mind and from the Strawbs on their album Ringing Down the Years (1980)
• Kate Bush: Blow Away on her album Never for Ever (1980)
• Alan Richardson: Queen of Peace (1981)
• Bert Jansch: Where Did My Life Go? on his album Thirteen Down (1980). Eleanor McEvoy sang this song on the Bert Jansch tribute CD People on the Highway (2000).
• Paul Metsers: Sandy’s Song on his first album Caution to the Wind (1981) with Helen Watson playing piano and her and Nic Jones singing harmony vocals
• Dave Swarbrick: Boadicea on his albums Flittin’ (1983) and English Fiddler (2003)
  (“Boadicea” was Swarb’s nickname for Sandy.)
• Dave Pegg: Song for Sandy on the album The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone (1983)
• Clann Eadair with Phil Lynott: A Tribute to Sandy Denny, a Clann Eadair single (1984)
• Charles E. Owston: Angel of Avalon (1999), recorded by Carnival of Souls on their album No Scone Unburned
• Ocean Colour Scene: She’s Been Writing (2003), on their album North Atlantic Drift
• Mark Olson: Sandy Denny (June 2007), on his album The Salvation Blues
• Walter Ehresman: Near November (2009), on his album Monkey Paw Situation
• Sally Barker & Vicki Genfan: Hopes, Songs, Dreams (2017), on their album In the Shadow of a Small Mountain

Most of this information is from a mail of Levent Varlik on the Sandy Denny mailing list and from Pamela Murray Winters’ unreleased biography No Thought of Leaving - A Life of Sandy Denny.