“The book is quite dark, but never complete evil. It’s misunderstandings, and that’s what evil and sin are supposed to be”: How a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel became a Steeleye Span album

Steeleye Span and Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith.

Steeleye Span’s dynamic 2013 album set Sir Terry Pratchett’s Wintersmith novel to music. That year, vocalist Maddy Prior and the author himself – who died in 2015 – told Prog how the folk-rock giants and the master of comic fantasy came together, and why “a good witch never cackles.”

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