Later Years
After many years of poor health (years in which MacColl nonetheless wrote, recorded and performed frequently) he died in October, 1989: the lifetime archive of his work with Peggy Seeger and others was passed on to Ruskin College at Oxford.
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Became a bitter, an abstract thing...?”
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