February 04, 2019

Young’uns - how a spanish fighter's life inspired their latest album

Johnny Longstaff was a 17-year-old boy from the north of England who “didn’t even know what sex was” and who “couldn’t find Spain on a map” but became determined to defy the wishes of his own government and fight for democracy in a foreign land - almost a hundred years after he was born folk trio the Young’uns' publish an album inspired by his extraordinary life. Guardian...