She was considered a shining light of folk rock, and yet the singer and songwriter suffered from self-doubt and drug addiction. She died at the age of 31 under tragic circumstances.
It was an accident. But when Sandy Denny fell into a coma on April 28, 1978, from which she never woke up, she had long lost all courage to face life. She died exhausted and addicted, a broken woman, humiliated by her husband, written off from the music business. Just ten years earlier, producer Joe Boyd had expressed concerns when told…
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