Sandy Denny

SANDY DENNY d1978. English singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of folk-band Fairport Convention and described as "the pre-eminent British folk-rock singer". After briefly working with The Strawbs, she joined Fairport Convention in 1968, remaining with them until the end of 1969 when she formed the short-lived band Fotheringay in 1970. She then focused on her solo-career between 1971-1977 releasing four albums. She became noted as the only guest vocalist on a Led Zeppelin studio album, when she shared a duet with Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin IV on The Battle For Evermore. A heavy drinker, smoker and drug user ; she died on 21st April 1978 aged just 31 of a brain heamorrhage following a staircase fall whilst on holiday in Cornwall a month earlier.