Ewan MacColl’s own story, from a Salford childhood through agitprop theatre and the Radio Ballads to the founding of the folk club movement. Opinionated and vivid, it is the revival told by one of the people who made it.
About Ewan MacColl

An Autobiography
Ewan MacColl
Manchester University Press · 2009
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Ewan MacColl’s own story, from a Salford childhood through agitprop theatre and the Radio Ballads to the founding of the folk club movement. Opinionated and vivid, it is the revival told by one of the people who made it.
About Ewan MacColl
Biographies of Fifty Performers and Other Influential People
David Dicaire
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Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song
Shirley Collins
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