From: Ernest - PM
Date: 16 Sep 15 - 12:58 PM

As MGM Lion quoted in the "Actors who play/sing folk music" thread:

"Many of MacColl's best-known songs were written for the theatre. For example, he wrote "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" very quickly at the request of Peggy Seeger, who needed it for use in a play she was appearing in..."

I presume one had to pay an admission fee to see the play - so it seems to be written for commercial reasons too.

Now how does that change the value of the song, GSS?
dont be ridiculous
as far as I am aware the song was written after a telephone
conversation between MacColl and Seeger, she requesting a song, Ewan wrote it for her. MacColl did not write it for the purpose of making money, he wrote it because he was expressing how he felt for peggy seeger.
to say that something is a facile comment, is not rude, please look it up in the dictionary
superciliious means disdainful, my comments were statements of fact, the rudeness came later from punkfolk rocker