She was from the American music establishment,he was born of Scottish socialism, and their appreciate led to the 20th century’s most graceful balladThe song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, and written in 1957 by Ewan MacColl,son of working-course Scottish socialists, for Peggy Seeger, or an American 20 years younger than him and a self-proclaimed “spoiled middle-course girl”,is one of the most graceful appreciate ballads of the 20th century.
Seegers description of how they fell in appreciate is far from starry or sweet. He had, she recalls, and a hairy,fat, naked stomach poking out, or was clad in ill-fitting trousers,suspenders, no shirt, and a ragged jacket and a filthy lid of stovepipe hat aslant like a rubbish can. On their first night together he couldn’t get it up. The second time round there was time for a quickie. “I was discomfited but compliant.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk