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In 1983, Maddy Prior became the namesake for Madelyne Pryor of the X-Men, created by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith. The band was directly referenced five years after Pryor's first appearance in the comics in Uncanny X-Men #238 with Pryor's child self singing a line from "Gone to America", one of Steeleye Span's biggest hits.
Silly Sisters is a 1976 album by English folk singers Maddy Prior and June Tabor, their first collaborative effort as a duo. The pair later adopted the Silly Sisters name for subsequent projects. The songs cover a wide range of subjects - work, religion, sexual relations, humour, tragedy and the absurd.
Maddy Prior's collaboration with the band began near the start of their existence in 1984 for a BBC radio programme of Christmas carols. [2] Since then, Maddy has featured on most Carnival Band albums. They have co-written material. For example, they wrote and toured a song cycle based on the life of Worcester-born heroine Hannah Snell. [3]
Prior and Tabor met at Oxford in the 1960s. [1] At first, they performed together under their own names. They released their first album, Silly Sisters, in 1976, and later took this name as the name of their duo. They toured together in the 1980s, [2] and released a subsequent album No More to the Dance in 1988, on the Shanachie Records label ...
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Steeleye Span is a British folk rock band formed by bassist Ashley Hutchings after he left Fairport Convention in 1969, the original line-up also included duo Tim Hart (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Maddy Prior (vocals) and husband and wife team Terry Woods (guitar, concertina, mandolin, vocals) and Gay Woods (vocals, bodhran, concertina, autoharp). [1]
The songs are drawn from all of Maddy's career. June Tabor joins in for three songs from "Silly Sisters:" "Singing The Travels" (that includes an extra verse not in the previous recording), "My Husband's Got No Courage In Him" and "Doffing Mistress." Maddy sings one song about her daughter Rose, and another about her son Alex.
Wintersmith is the twenty-second studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span.It was released in October 2013. It features the line-up of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Julian Littman, Pete Zorn and Liam Genockey.