Roy Bailey (singer)

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Roy Bailey (August 2018)

Roy Bailey (born October 20, 1935 in London , † November 20, 2018 in Sheffield ) was a political folk singer and sociologist from Great Britain .

biography

Bailey began his musical career in 1958 as a singer in a skiffle band. He became known in the 1970s, especially through recordings with Martin Carthy and Leon Rosselson. Roy Bailey was, despite his extensive musical career, always an amateur and full-time professor of sociology at Hallam University in Sheffield. The Baileys are a musical family company: his wife Val can be heard on some of their CDs, his daughter Kit took over his management and his son-in-law Martin Simpson is also musically successful.

Bailey was a university professor in the sociology department . After graduating, he first worked at Enfield College of Technology in London, now Middlesex University , where he played a key role in shaping the sociology department. From 1971 he worked at what is now Sheffield Hallam University . Bailey retired in 1990. He then worked at Northern College until 1995.

Honourings and prices

1989 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

In 2000 Bailey was awarded the Order of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his services to English folk music , which he returned in 2006 in protest against British support for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon .

In 2003 he and Tony Benn won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the 'Best Live Act' category.

Discography

Solo albums:

  • 1968 Oats & Beans & Kangaroos
  • 1969 Cobweb of Dreams (EP)
  • 1971 Roy Bailey
  • 1976 New Bell Wake
  • 1982 Hard Times
  • 1982 ... Freedom Peacefully
  • 1988 Leaves From A Tree
  • 1989 Why Does It Have to Be Me?
  • 1994 Business As Usual
  • 1997 New Directions in the Old
  • 2000 coda
  • 2002 Up the Wooden Hill
  • 2003 The Writing on the Wall - Live in Cambridge 2000
  • 2005 Sit Down and Sing
  • 2009 Below the Radar

With Leon Rosselson:

  • 1975 That's Not the Way It's Got to Be
  • 1977 Love, Loneliness & Laundry
  • 1979 If I Knew Who the Enemy Was ...

Compilations:

  • 1991 What You Do With What You've Got
  • 1998 Past Masters

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Roy Bailey obituary. November 20, 2018 (English).;
  2. ^ A message from Roy's family. November 20, 2018 (English).;
personal data
SURNAME Bailey, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2018
Place of death Sheffield