![]() In a 1972 Rolling Stone magazine interview, Sill described her home life after her mother's remarriage as unhappy and frequently violent due to physical fights between Sill and her parents. When Milford Sill died of pneumonia in 1952, Sill's mother Oneta moved with Judee and her older brother Dennis to Los Angeles, where Oneta soon met and married Tom and Jerry animator Kenneth Muse. Her father, Milford "Bun" Sill, an importer of exotic animals for use in films, owned a bar in Oakland, in which Sill learned to play the piano. Judith Lynne Sill was born in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, on October 7, 1944, and spent her early childhood in the Oakland, California area. Her demos were released with other rarities on the 2005 collection Dreams Come True. She did not find commercial success, and no obituary was published however, several artists have since cited her as an influence. Sill struggled with addiction through much of her life, and died of a drug overdose in 1979. In 1974, Sill recorded demos for a third album, which was never completed. The first artist signed to David Geffen's label Asylum, Sill's eponymous debut album was released in 1971, followed by Heart Food in 1973. She was influenced by Bach, and wrote lyrics drawing on Christian themes of rapture and redemption. There’s a huge difference between me and my contemporaries, in some ways.Judith Lynne Sill (Octo– November 23, 1979) was an American singer-songwriter. I polarised a lot of people, and I still do. I’m very grateful to have outlived that, and for the album to have come back into an era where it’s accepted again. Shortly after Stormcock I was hospitalised anyway, and was told I had seven years to live. ![]() I’ve probably survived longer because of it. If Stormcock had been successful I might well have become a megalomaniac, but I don’t really think it would’ve changed anything.īeing marginalised has had its strong points. Of course it wasn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but it would have made a lot more noise than it actually did at the time. And it was a new direction for people to look at. I knew that if Stormcock had been taken at face value it was a revolution in itself. And after that I was effectively marginalised by EMI. Anything that was selling in millions they got behind, but they didn’t want to break new ground. So before the record was finished it was outlawed. I knew they weren’t satisfied, because they wanted a single and there was no single appearing. Unfortunately the record company, who came in once or twice to listen, made almost flattering noises then went away. When I sit down to write, the number-one consideration is timelessness. In order to remain current, songs have to pertain to what’s happening in a modern sense. Your own interpretation of it is always there, but I automatically couch things in an amount of generality that can’t be pinpointed to one event. When I sing the chorus I have her in mind, but that’s not what the song is about. Is it true that the song is also about your first wife? And it’s a question that remains unanswered. It’s now over forty years later and people are still asking the same question, but it’s actually got a lot closer to the bone now. I was thinking about maintaining this shape in society for a very long time and making this point when I wrote it in 1970. In my mind that song is always the question: me and my woman – what are we doing on this planet? Are we part of the ongoing fauna and flora, or are we likely to last very much longer? If we’re going to have longevity on the planet, we have to find ways to live that are more controlled than they are now. Is Me And My Woman the most directly personal song on the album? As I was coming into the making of Stormcock I realised there were other places I could go to quite easily, without a moment’s thought. At the beginning of Led Zeppelin I think he suddenly found he could do things that were different. ![]() ![]() Jimmy elevated it into something else entirely. He’s so intuitive when it comes to the things he loves.
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