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Thread #165945   Message #3986728
Posted By: Jim Carroll
10-Apr-19 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: Charles Parker BBC Radio 4 Sat 6 April
Subject: RE: Charles Parker BBC Radio 4 Sat 6 April
"Epigones"
It seems the perwsitant attack on somebody thirty years dead has now been extended to those guilty by association
WEhen will yhou people never learn - if you don't know ort understand what MacColl was about - leave him to lie in peace
As Peggy said, in her leter to'The Livin Tradition' - "He's no longer around to defend himself
If MacColl behaved to otherees the way you peoplestill do to him, he would have deserved twice as much shit poured on his memory than he is still getting
MacColl never attempted to 'persuade' any of those who work with him to sing in any way other than their own - we worked as a Group that shared ideas and opinions
Jim Carroll