The singer-songwriter, folk musician and storyteller Jackie Leven, born in 1950 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the son of an Irishman and a Roma, began his musical career in the late 1960s under the pseudonym John St. Field, under which he also recorded his first album "Control" in 1973. Inspired by punk, he founded the band Doll by Doll in London in 1978. The band"s emotional, psychedelic-tinged New Wave was very well received live, but the band"s four albums did not achieve the expected commercial sales results. After Doll By Doll disbanded in 1983, Jackie Leven focussed on his solo career. However, after a number of personal and health-related strokes of fate, it was not until 11 years later that this took off with the release of the album "The Mystery ... read more