Sandy Denny remembered: Who Knows Where the time went?

A birthday tribute to a treasured singer-songwriter, lost far too young

On this day, January 6 1947, the woman we came to know as Sandy began her tragically short life as Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny. When she died just 31 years later, music - in living form at least - was robbed of an exceptional talent, an artist I regarded then and regard now as among the finest singer-songwriters Britain has produced.

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