Biography:

Ewan MacColl (born James Henry Miller in Salford, Lancashire, on 25 January 1915; died 22 October 1989) is recognised as the father of the British folk revival. The writer of classics such as "Dirty Old Town" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (which won him a Grammy in 1972), MacColl partnered Peggy Seeger and was father to musicians Kirsty MacColl, Neill MacColl and Calum MacColl, and grandfather to Bombay Bicycle Club's Jamie MacColl.

Innovative and inspiring, both collecting traditional songs, as well as writing new ones.

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Other songs:

• Ballad Of Accounting
• Dirty Old Town
• Get Up And Bar The Door
• Joy Of Living
• Legal Illegal
• My Old Man
• North Sea Holes
• The Ballad Of Ho Chi Minh
• The Big Hewer
• The California Rambler
• The Fathers Song
• The First Time
• The Media
• The Springhill Disaster
• Thirty Foot Trailer

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