I've also been reading Ben Harker's biog Class Act and find it full of interesting details and overbearing opinion. But maybe that because I disagree with his opinions.

Here in the States we generally judge MacColl from his recordings and the occasional concert, when he and Peggy were permitted to enter this country. I certainly had a great appreciate for the work that he and A. L. Lloyd did. And I found him amazingly responsive to several inquiries I directed to him with regard to songs composed in the Unity Theatre days.

It's hard for me to believe that the critics in this thread of MacColl are motivated by anything more than envy or frustration, or hatred for anyone who was a long term Communist. There are some here in the States who have similar feelings about Pete Seeger and I disagree with them as well.

Charley Noble