Jim. I related what he said.

Don’t reinforce your odd take on the subject by saying something didn’t happen when you weren’t there.

The subject is heckling in folk clubs. I gave a first hand account of being heckled from the stage in regard to my own performance. An example of the subject in hand and it isn’t good to then read your nonsense.

For everyone else, MacColl has been a musical hero of mine since playing my much older brother’s “The World of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Songs from the Radio Ballads Vol 2” when I was approx ten years old. To this day, I reckon I’m word perfect in recalling the words of every song. Obviously I was crushed to then as a 22 year old singer to have my hero be so ignorant.

He’s still a hero as the twentieth century sage, just (as many attest) he wasn’t a very nice person. Earlier, I’d interviewed him for a syndicated hospital radio folk show I used to present (87 hospitals broadcast it) and Peggy kept intervening to save the interview then. I assume he was having a bad day, but as ever, don’t meet your heros.