Sandy Denny Grave — Putney Vale Cemetery, London

Alexandra Elene MacLachlan Denny — Sandy Denny — died on April 21, 1978, at the age of 31, from a brain haemorrhage following a fall down a flight of stairs at a friend's house in Byfield, Northamptonshire. She is buried at Putney Vale Cemetery in South West London, not far from the North London suburban world where she grew up. Her grave is visited regularly by fans of Fairport Convention and British folk rock, and is one of the quieter music pilgrimage sites in a city full of them.

Denny's voice was one of the most remarkable in British music — a pure, high soprano with an instinctive understanding of traditional English and Celtic music, capable of extraordinary emotional depth without sentimentality. Her recordings with Fairport Convention on "Unhalfbricking" and "Liege and Lief," her work with her own band Fotheringay, and her solo albums — particularly "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens" (1971) — represent a body of work whose full significance took decades to be properly recognised. She is the only artist to have sung on a Led Zeppelin recording: Robert Plant invited her to duet on "The Battle of Evermore" (1971) on "Led Zeppelin IV."

Putney Vale Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery that also contains the graves of cricketer Peter May and comedian Benny Hill, among others. Sandy Denny's grave is marked simply and receives flowers from visitors who continue to find her music. The British folk rock revival she helped create — which encompassed Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, the Incredible String Band, and many others — remained one of the twentieth century's most significant and least internationally recognised musical movements.