Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl
NazionalitàBandiera del Regno Unito Regno Unito
GenereCanzone politica
Folk
Periodo di attività musicale1930 – 1989
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Ewan MacColl, pseudonimo di James Henry Miller (Salford, 25 gennaio 1915 – Kensington e Chelsea, 22 ottobre 1989), è stato un cantautore, attivista, drammaturgo poeta e produttore discografico britannico.

È stato uno dei principali interpreti del secondo Folk revival britannico e autore di standard come The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face e Dirty Old Town. Nel 1973 ha vinto il Grammy Award alla canzone dell'anno, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, interpretata da Roberta Flack.

Politicamente era attivo nel Partito Comunista di Gran Bretagna.

Era il padre della cantante Kirsty MacColl.

Discografia[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

Album solista

  • Scots Street Songs (1956)
  • Shuttle and Cage (1957)
  • Barrack Room Ballads (1958)
  • Still I Love Him (1958)
  • Bad Lads and Hard Cases (1959)
  • Songs of Robert Burns (1959)
  • Haul on the Bowlin'(1961)
  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads) (1961)
  • Broadside Ballads, vols 1 and 2 (1962)
  • Off to Sea Once More (1963)
  • Four Pence a Day (1963)
  • British Industrial Folk songs (1963)
  • Steam Whistle Ballads (1964)
  • Bundook Ballads (1967)
  • The Wanton Muse (1968)
  • Paper Stage 1 (1969)
  • Paper Stage 2 (1969)
  • Solo Flight (1972)
  • Hot Blast (1978)
  • Daddy, What did You Do in The Strike? (1985)

Collaborazione – A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, con Steve Benbow

  • Gamblers and Sporting Blades (E.P.) (1962)

Collaborazione – Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd

  • Bold Sportsmen All: Gamblers & Sporting Blades (1962)
  • A Sailor's Garland (1966)
  • Blow Boys Blow (1967)

Collaborazione – A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Louis Killen, Ian Campbell, Cyril Tawney, Sam Larner & Harry H. Corbett

  • Blow the Man Down (EP) (1956)

Collaborazione – A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl

  • A Hundred Years Ago (EP) (1956)
  • The Coast of Peru (EP) (1956)
  • The Singing Sailor (1956)
  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 1 (1956)
  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 2 (1956)
  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 3 (1956)
  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 4 (1956)
  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 5 (1956)
  • Songs Against the Bomb (1960)
  • English and Scottish Folk Ballads (1964)

Collaborazione – Bob & Ron Copper, Ewan MacColl, Isla Cameron, Seamus Ennis & Peter Kennedy

  • As I Roved Out (1953–4)

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

  • Popular Scottish Songs (1960)
  • Classic Scots Ballads (1961)
  • Chorus From The Gallows (1961)
  • Jacobite Songs – The Two Rebellions 1715 and 1745 (1962)
  • The Amorous Muse (1966)
  • The Manchester Angel (1966)
  • The Angry Muse (1968)
  • Saturday Night at The Bull and Mouth (1977)
  • Cold Snap (1977)
  • Kilroy Was Here
  • Freeborn Man
  • Items of News (1986)
  • Scottish Drinking and Pipe Songs
  • Naming of Names (1990)
  • The Jacobite Rebellions (1962)
  • The Long Harvest 1 (1966)
  • The Long Harvest 2 (1967)
  • The Long Harvest 3 (1968)
  • The Long Harvest 4 (1969)
  • The Long Harvest 5 (1970)
  • The Long Harvest 6 (1971)
  • The Long Harvest 7 (1972)
  • The Long Harvest 8 (1973)
  • The Long Harvest 9 (1974)
  • The Long Harvest 10 (1975)
  • Blood and Roses (1979)
  • Blood and Roses 2 (1981)
  • Blood and Roses 3 (1982)
  • Blood and Roses 4 (1982)
  • Blood and Roses 5 (1983)

Ewan MacColl/The Radio Ballads (1958–1964)

  • Ballad of John Axon (1958)
  • Song of a Road (1959)
  • Singing The Fishing (1960)
  • The Big Hewer (1961)
  • The Body Blow (1962)
  • On The Edge (1963)
  • The Fight Game (1964)
  • The Travelling People (1964)

Collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

Controllo di autoritàVIAF (EN) 85752793 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0003 6864 5094 · Europeana agent/base/147556 · LCCN (EN) n83021411 · GND (DE) 106457179 · BNF (FR) cb13986127j (data) · J9U (EN, HE) 987007302973705171 · CONOR.SI (SL) 326623075 · WorldCat Identities (EN) lccn-n83021411
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