Mary Coughlan
speaker
275 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Mary Coughlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
They wrote an album called Mirrors, which was about the rise of fascism in America in 1939.
Some of the songs were about murder, murder of a gay friend of theirs who was outed by his murder.
There was a song about a schizophrenic woman.
And there were really difficult, really, really challenging themes.
One really, really sad song about the way America had changed.
And I said, my God, what is this?
And he said, I have no clue.
Nothing is written on it.
There's no leave notes.
Peggy Lee sang all the songs.
But the album was withdrawn after a thousand copies were sold.
And he said, I know for a fact that this is the only one in New Zealand and you're having it and you can do what you like with it.
So during COVID, I applied for a small grant to do some research into it.
And I had to work with other media, like I worked with Josh O'Keefe.
He did animation for me and another girl called Eilis De Fuita.
gathered together when we were allowed to do so.
And then my band, the Mermaid Theatre, allowed us to rehearse the songs.
I got in contact with Peggy Lee's granddaughter because she was the only point of contact that I knew, you know, on Facebook, would you believe?
And I got a call from a lawyer in L.A.
saying, ooh, what's this?
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