New sandy denny biography sample
New sandy denny biography sample...
On Thursday 5th March 2015 we celebrated Sandy Denny as part of our Art School Counterculture event at Kingston Museum, exploring all the creative disciplines that art school students participated in, including music, poetry, theatre and dance.
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Thanks to all those who made the evening a success, including students from creative courses at Kingston, and all our performers. The images below capture the atmosphere of the evening:
In this exclusive extract adapted by Mick Houghton from his excellent new biography, we learn more about Sandy Denny’s connections to the art school and Kingston:
Born and brought up in Wimbledon, Sandy Denny attended Coombe Girls School after passing her 11+ and came away with five O-levels at the end of her fifth year.
She stayed on to take art and music A-levels but dropped music because she had a run-in with her teacher. Then in February 1965, Sandy won a scholarship to Kingston Art School. Once she received the letter of acceptance to undertake th