Singers like Seeger and Guthrie would attend rallies for labor unions, and so wrote many songs concerning the life of the working classes, and social protest ; as did other folksingers like Josh White, Cisco Houston, Malvina Reynolds, Earl Robinson, Ewan MacColl, John Jacob Niles, and Doc Watson, while blues singers like Johnson and Hopkins wrote songs about their personal life experiences.

* Ewan MacColl wrote the song " The Ballad of Tim Evans " ( also known as " Go Down You Murderer ") about the case.

When MacColl first wrote the song, the local council were unhappy at having Salford called a dirty old town and, after considerable criticism, the words of the song were changed from " smelled the smoke on the Salford wind " to " smelled the spring on the smoky wind ".

The Soho Square garden contains a bench that commemorates the late singer Kirsty MacColl, who wrote the song " Soho Square " for her album Titanic Days.

" ( Ochs wrote in the liner notes that " songs like this " were one of the reasons the State Department blocked Ewan MacColl from entering the U. S., adding that this was unwise given " the quality of culture in America.

During the late 1990s Graham wrote with a few different writers including Paul Carrack on his minor 1997 hit " The Way I'm Feeling Tonight " and Kirsty MacColl on her final album, Tropical Brainstorm, in 2000.

In addition to contributing to a variety of collaborative CDs for Revels Records and North Star Records, local New England recording labels, Coffin has also recorded three solo albums: Flight of Time, Nantucket Sleighride and Safe in the Harbour, all of which feature traditional and maritime music, some of which is taken from the singing of Ewan MacColl and Stan Rogers.

When, in 1953 Theatre Workshop decided relocate to Stratford, London, MacColl, who had opposed that move, left the company and changed the focus of his career from acting and playwriting to singing and composing folk and topical songs.

The 1991 movie Let Him Have It, starring Christopher Eccleston as Bentley and Paul Reynolds as Craig, relates the story, as do the songs " Derek Bentley " by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, " Let Him Dangle " by Elvis Costello, " Let Him Have It " by The Bureau, and " Bentley and Craig " by Ralph McTell, whose mother was a friend of the Bentley family.

After being revived by Ewan MacColl, several of the songs included gained new popularity in the 20th century through performances by musicians such as The Corries, Steeleye Span and Eddi Reader, among others – most notably Ye Jacobites (# 34 ), Cam Ye O ' er Frae France (# 53 ) and Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation (# 36 ).

Ewan MacColl became the leading writer of English protest songs in the 1950s, with pro-communist songs such as " The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh " and " The Ballad of Stalin ", as well as volatile protest and topical songs concerning the nuclear threat to peace, most notably " Against the Atom Bomb ".

Industrial folk songs were largely ignored by early folk song collectors, but gained attention in the second folk revival in the twentieth century, being noted and recorded by figures such as George Korson, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie in the USA and A. L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in Britain.

The episode featured previously lost footage of David Bowie performing The Jean Genie from Top of the Pops in 1973, some rarely seen footage of Ringo romping in the snow performing his solo hit It Don't Come Easy as well as classic festive songs by Slade, Shakin ' Stevens and the Pogues with Kirsty MacColl.

There was already an American folk revival beginning in the United States, and men such as Ewan MacColl popularizing old songs on the other side of the Atlantic.

From 1957 to 1964 probably the widest audience for British work songs was achieved through the Radio Ballads, of MacColl and Peggy Seeger, many of which focused on work, including rail workers, road building, fishing and coal mining.

However, many of the songs in the Radio Ballads were written by MacColl himself in the style of the songs that he, Lloyd and others had collected e. g. ' Shoals of Herring '.

Ochs showed great thematic versatility on the album, including not just blatantly anti-war or protest songs but also poetry ( Alfred Noyes, John Rooney, and Ewan MacColl ) and some songs his followers probably didn't want to hear.

He is a major figure in the history of mathematical logic ( a term he may have invented ), by virtue of summarizing and extending the work of George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Hugh MacColl, and especially Charles Peirce.

On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance ( recorded the previous week ) on the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl, the first time the band had played the song live on television.

In 1956, MacColl caused a scandal when he fell in love with twenty-one-year-old Peggy Seeger, who had come to England to transcribe the music for Alan Lomax's anthology, Folk Songs of North America ( published in 1961 ).

This song became a # 1 hit in 1972 when covered by Roberta Flack and won MacColl a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, while Flack received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year .< ref >

Shortly afterwards, when Gerry Raffles joined the troupe, MacColl and Littlewood divorced, though they still worked together for many years and Littlewood was godmother to MacColl's two children.

The leading protagonists of this revival, often referred to as the second British folk revival, were folk singers Ewan MacColl and Bert Lloyd, both of whom saw British folk music as a vehicle for leftist political concepts and an antidote to the American-dominated popular music of the time.

One of the songwriters and backing vocalist for the " Shine " album was Kirsty MacColl, who was killed in a boating accident in Mexico in December 2000.

** Ewan MacColl ( songwriter ) for " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " performed by Roberta Flack

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: D. S. MacColl, Philip Wilson Steer

Writing to Canon Malcolm MacColl, Salisbury believed that Gladstone's proposals for reform without redistribution would mean " the absolute effacement of the Conservative Party.

Previously, Littlewood had worked with MacColl in developing radio plays for the BBC that had taken script and cast from local workers.

The first was for the Newcastle based record label Rubber Records ( His Round with Hedgehog Pie, Punch and Judy Man, Tony Capstick Does a Turn, Songs of Ewan MacColl with Dick Gaughan and Dave Burland and There Was This Bloke with Mike Harding, Derek Brimstone and Bill Barclay ).

MacColl called it " a generous gift to a private company at the expense of future taxpayers " since it was constructed for a cost of $ 40, 342 and sold 15 months later for $ 27, 000.

Set into Song: Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and the Radio Ballads was written and researched by Peter Cox, published by Labatie Books ISBN 978-0-9551877-1-1 and has an extensive website which carries the first two pages of each chapter, the complete transcripts and cast lists for each programme, bibliography, footnotes and reviews.

However, Karen O ' Brien's official biography, Kirsty MacColl: The One and Only, claimed this as MacColl's first vocal backing recording for Stiff Records.

The other major figure of the second British folk revival, Ewan MacColl also played a significant part in popularising British Industrial folk song, making Shuttle and Cage a 10 " LP with Peggy Seeger for Topic Records in 1958 and alone an LP for Stinson in 1963 called British Industrial Folk Songs.

Besides having a solo career, writing and playing for Morrissey and touring occasionally with the Polecats, Boorer has also worked with other artists, including Adam Ant, Kirsty MacColl, Joan Armatrading, Jools Holland, and Edwyn Collins.

In the early 1980s, McAdorey lived in the UK, where she was briefly a backup singer for Kirsty MacColl.

In 1932 the British counterintelligence service, MI5, began a file on MacColl, after the local police told them that the singer was " a communist with very extreme views " who needed " special attention ".

Over the years MacColl recorded and produced upwards of a hundred albums, many with English folk song collector and singer A. L.

" Dirty Old Town " is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by The Dubliners and has been recorded by many others since.

She listed Kate Bush, Doctor Who, Prefab Sprout, Lloyd Cole, Belle & Sebastian, Kirsty MacColl and The Smiths among her many influences.

Carpenters fan Jackie Clune promoted an album Love Songs ( Dress Circle ) courtesy of a show at Soho Theatre in London's West End from 15 – 17 July 2010 ; she has also been involved in several musical projects including the 2010 memorial concert for the late Kirsty MacColl who worked with The Pogues and is remembered through Music for Cuba Fund. She sang with Billy Bragg on that occasion but has also worked with many celebrities.

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

This five-piece recorded the singles " Panic " and " Ask " ( the latter with Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals ) which reached numbers 11 and 14 respectively on the UK Singles Chart, and toured the UK.

He taught it to her by long-distance telephone, while she was on tour in the United States ( from which MacColl had been barred because of his Communist past ).

Lomax also hosted a folk music show on BBC's home service and organized a skiffle group, Alan Lomax and the Ramblers ( who included Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Shirley Collins, among others ), which appeared on British television.

Lyngstad dedicated a song on her most recent compilation album to MacColl, " Chemistry Tonight ", which MacColl had co-written.

Lloyd ’ s album The Singing Sailor ( 1955 ) with Ewan MacColl was an early milestone, which made an impression on Stan Hugill when he was preparing his 1961 collection, particularly as the performance style it embodied was considered more appropriate than that of earlier commercial recordings.

Between 1985 and 1987, he co-wrote what is perhaps his best-known song, " Fairytale of New York ", which he performed with Kirsty MacColl.

Donleavy's later books spell out the aftermath ( particularly A Fairy Tale of New York, which later inspired Shane MacGowan's song " Fairytale of New York ", recorded by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl ).

However, in London she also involved herself in the early folk revival and in 1954, at a party hosted by Ewan MacColl, she met Alan Lomax, the famous American folk collector, who had moved to Britain to avoid the McCarthy witch-hunt which was then raging in America.

Singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl reminisced on the opening: The new Central Library which replaced the chicken house was an imposing circular structure with an enormous reading room, a small theatre and carrels where serious students could carry on their research without interruption.

Like the American revival, it was often overtly left wing in its politics, but, led by such figures as Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd from the early 1950s, it also attempted to produce a distinctively English music that was an alternative to the American dominance of popular culture which was, as they saw it, displacing the traditional music of an increasingly urbanised and industrialised working class.