Talk:Ewan MacColl
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[edit] Expansion
I've expanded and corrected the entry. Only removal was the George Bernard Shaw quotation. The version on the previous entry was, I'm pretty certain, incorrect and I'll need to check my sources before I can re insert the correct version (and circumstance). MichaelW 13:35, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
This page doesn't seem to be accessible from the category 'British folk singers'. Can someone fix this, or even better set up the more appropriate category 'English folk singers' Johncmullen1960 06:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
According to JOAN'S BOOK, by Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl was arrested, had his beard forcibly shaved, and was apparently interrogated after he went AWOL. It doesn't clarify exactly why he didn't end up serving a sentence, but there is the strong suggestion that MacColl suffered some sort of psychiatric breakdown while in custody. The book also suggests that desertion among British troops stationed in the UK during the war was apparently a common occurrence, and not that difficult to do(since all the deserter would have to do was basically walk off the base and make his way home, a trip that wouldn't take long from any point in mainland Britain).
Ken Burch 12:26 am, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
- No suggestion there his beard was forcibly shaved - says it was gone before the cops took him away. He then spent several months under arrest and only avoided court martial because of a psychiatrist's report. That put his case under the discretion of his CO and Joan says they had been told if it came to that he would probably have to do 30 days in the glasshouse.
- Ben Harker's biography is to be published in October. We'll just have to wait until then and see what he's been able to dig up. MichaelW 21:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Discography
...can we have one?
-- TimNelson (talk) 04:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
