Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl (January 25, 1915 - October 22, 1989) was an English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer.

Born Jimmie Miller in Salford to Scottish parents, William and Bet

Ewan MacColl (January 25, 1915 - October 22, 1989) was an English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer.

Born Jimmie Miller in Salford to Scottish parents, William and Betsy Miller. He left school in 1929, joined the Young Communist League and the socialist amateur theatre troupe, the Clarion Players. He began his career as a writer helping produce, and contributing humorous verse and skits to, some of the Communist Party's factory papers. He was an activist in the unemployed workers campaigns and the mass trespasses of the early 1930s. One of his best known songs The Manchester Rambler was written after the pivotal mass trespass of Kinder Scout. He was responsible for publicity in the planning of the trespass.