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Subject: 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
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by: henry chalder - Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:56 UTC

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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Re: Polly Brown of Pickety Witch I recall a documentary on Maggie	henry chalder

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