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  • Re: Polly Brown of Pickety Witch I recall a documentary on Maggie Farran, as I recall she had what was known at the time, 'yuppies disease' later diagnosed as (Myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome). She lived on the Isle of Wight

    From henry chalder@henrychalder@gmail.com to alt.music.lyrics on Sun Mar 26 12:56:10 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.music.lyrics

    On Tuesday, 18 May 2004 at 07:09:39 UTC+1, vaiben wrote:
    Does anyone know what became of Polly Brown? Last I heard (and I mean
    about
    20 years ago) she was extremely ill with a form of total allergy
    syndrome...
    No, Polly never had Total Allergy Syndrome. That's another urban myth!
    I think it was Maggie Farran (who briefly fronted a band in the mid
    '70s called New Pickettywitch) who had that illness, certainly not
    Polly. I don't know what came of Maggie, but last I heard (a year or
    two ago), Polly was alive and well. She released solo recordings well
    into the 80s on the independent Witch label. Some of these (together
    with 'Puff of Smoke' and some Pickettywitch hits) appeared on an RPM compilation CD in 1995 - 'Bewitched: The Polly Browne Story', and more recently Polly had some involvement in the release of the Sanctuary CD compilation 'That Same Old Feeling: The Complete Recordings' which
    features all Pickettywitch's self-titled 1970 album as well as all
    their A & B sides. Sleeve notes are great, and feature recent comments
    from Polly. In fact both CDs are a must for Polly fans. There was talk
    of Sanctuary releasing more of her solo recordings on CD for the first
    time, but nothing's happened yet.
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