Here’s the latest I can confirm from recent reporting.
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Beverley Martyn, the British folk singer and former wife of John Martyn, passed away on April 27, 2026, at age 79. The family released a statement noting she died peacefully at home. This is the most recent and widely reported development about Beverley Martyn [source: various outlets reporting the family statement, e.g., Stereogum coverage of Beverley Martyn’s death].[1]
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John Martyn, Beverley’s former husband, passed away earlier in 2009, and recent coverage on Beverley’s death references their past collaboration and marriage, including their albums Stormbringer! and The Road to Ruin from 1970.[2][4]
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For broader context, Beverley’s career includes a late-1990s return to recording with No Frills (1998) and The Phoenix and The Turtle (2014), with later tributes and retrospectives noting her influence in the English folk scene.[5][8][2]
If you’d like, I can pull a few recent articles with more details from major outlets and summarize any tributes or obituaries, or provide a quick timeline of Beverley’s career and collaborations.
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Listen to music by Beverley Martyn on Apple Music.
music.apple.comVinyl Vault with Geoff Anderson
www.kuvo.orgIn 1969 she met John Martyn, whom she later married. As a duo they issued two albums, Stormbringer! and The Road to Ruin. Although she was spending more time with her children, Beverley continued to contribute to JohnŐs solo projects until the breakdown of their marriage. … Welcome back, Beverley, youŐve been away too long. .......................................................................................................... Legendary singer Beverley Martyn is set to return to a career in...
love.torbenskott.dkmartyn News: Check out the latest news about martyn along with martyn movies, martyn photos, martyn videos and more on Times of India Entertainment.
timesofindia.indiatimes.comJohn Martyn's ex-wife on her new album, collaborating with Nick Drake, and her amazing career
www.musicradar.comBeverley Martyn is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist born in 1947 in Coventry, England. In the 1960s she recorded several singles and collaborated with many folk artists including Bert Jansch, Jimmy Page, and John Renbourn. In the late 1960s she met and married singer-songwriter John Martyn and released two albums with him. After divorcing Martyn in 1980, she stepped away from music for many years but returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s and 2010s, releasing the...
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www.deezer.comBeverley Martyn, the British folk singer-songwriter, has died. The news broke via a statement from the family of the late John Martyn, saying she passed “peacefully at home” on Monday (April 27). She was 79. “Beverley was a remarkable woman of great inner strength. She was beautiful, intelligent, warm and kind,” the statement added. Beverley…
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