English singer Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny, who sang lead for Fairport Convention, was born on January 6, 1947, and died on April 21, 1978. The “principal British folk-rock vocalist” describes her.
She studied classical piano as a child. Her paternal grandmother sang old-time tunes and spoke Scots Gaelic. Dundee is where her paternal grandfather was born.
Denny originally showed an interest in singing when she was young, but her conservative parents were skeptical that she could pursue it as a career. She attended Coombe Girls’ School in New Malden, and once she graduated, she joined in the nursing program at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
These six performers, each with a strong folk-rock background and at the top of their musical game, interpret the late Sandy Denny (of Fairport Convention), whose reputation as a songwriter and performer of traditional material grows yearly.
Who is the woman singing on the Battle of Evermore?
Led Zeppelin’s unnamed 1971 album, also known as Led Zeppelin IV, contains the folk duet “The Battle of Evermore,” recorded by Robert Plant and Sandy Denny. The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy book by R. R. Tolkien.
While Page was tinkering with John Paul Jones’s mandolin at Headley Grange, he and Robert Plant came up with the tune.
In 1977, Page said that “Robert [Plant] and I cooked up “Battle of Evermore” on the spot. Having never played mandolin before, I simply picked up John Paul Jones’s instrument and quickly scribbled down the chords and the entire song.”
The lyrics in the song, like those in Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” and “Misty Mountain Hop,” allude to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, with lines like “The Dark Lord rides in force tonight and time will tell us all” in line 4, “The drums will shake the castle wall, the Ringwraiths ride in black,” and “The dragon of darkness” in line 24.
The three songs “directly refer to Gollum, Mordor, the Ringwraiths, and events depicted in The Silmarillion and [Lord of the Rings],” according to the J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia.
