Kirsty MacColl

[Tj hooker]

Great singer sadly taken too young can't believe it's been 16 years suffered terribly with stage fright

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[Tony Moanero]

'There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis' is boss. Her cover of 'A New England' is good, too.

[Rico1304]

Argghh - fix my fat fingered neg !!! I beg you

[Rico1304]

'There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis' is boss. Her cover of 'A New England' is good, too.

(Can I refer you to the FSG thread)

[thegreatelephant]

A gorgeous, funny, warm, gifted woman who would take no shit. Doesn't get any better than that.

 

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MacColl mix

[AngryOfTuebrook]

20 years gone today.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tj hooker]

Great singer songwriter used to suffer with unbelievable stage fright Kirsty MacColl - Walking Down Madison (UK Version)

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This is boss.

 

 

 

[Redder Lurtz]

A bit of quality Kirsty triv:

 

In 1979 Kirsty MacColl was in a band called The Drug Addix. Stiff Records auditioned them but didn't like them. Shortly after, Kirsty left the band. Stiff Records heard about that and contacted her saying they didn't like the band but they liked her and could she come into a meeting the next day with a demo tape. She had nothing at the time, though she'd told Stiff that she had loads of material. So she hurriedly wrote "They Don't Know", recorded it with an acoustic guitar onto a cassette and went to see Stiff Records the next day. They signed her on the strength of that one song. She then fell out with one of the execs at Stiff who halted pressings of the record out of spite, so it was never the hit it should have been despite massive air play. The 7" vinyl is still quite a rarity today.

 

Tracey Ullman recorded the song in 1983, one of Pete Waterman's early protégées. Ullman was quite famous at the time and Waterman had heard she could sing a bit and so saw pound signs. It went to #2 in the UK and was only kept off #1 by Culture Club's "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" The line "bay-e-be-ee" in one of the choruses was sung by Kirsty MacColl because Ullman couldn't hit the note.

 

I thank you. 

[Captain Willard]

1 minute ago, Redder Lurtz said:

A bit of quality Kirsty triv:

 

In 1979 Kirsty MacColl was in a band called The Drug Addix. Stiff Records auditioned them but didn't like them. Shortly after, Kirsty left the band. Stiff Records heard about that and contacted her saying they didn't like the band but they liked her and could she come into a meeting the next day with a demo tape. She had nothing at the time, though she'd told Stiff that she had loads of material. So she hurriedly wrote "They Don't Know", recorded it with an acoustic guitar onto a cassette and went to see Stiff Records the next day. They signed her on the strength of that one song. She then fell out with one of the execs at Stiff who halted pressings of the record out of spite, so it was never the hit it should have been despite massive air play. The 7" vinyl is still quite a rarity today.

 

Tracey Ullman recorded the song in 1983, one of Pete Waterman's early protégées. Ullman was quite famous at the time and Waterman had heard she could sing a bit and so saw pound signs. It went to #2 in the UK and was only kept off #1 by Culture Club's "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" The line "bay-e-be-ee" in one of the choruses was sung by Kirsty MacColl because Ullman couldn't hit the note.

 

I thank you. 

Good story. She must be unique in being the only pop star ever to have been killed by a boat. 

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, Redder Lurtz said:

A bit of quality Kirsty triv:

 

In 1979 Kirsty MacColl was in a band called The Drug Addix. Stiff Records auditioned them but didn't like them. Shortly after, Kirsty left the band. Stiff Records heard about that and contacted her saying they didn't like the band but they liked her and could she come into a meeting the next day with a demo tape. She had nothing at the time, though she'd told Stiff that she had loads of material. So she hurriedly wrote "They Don't Know", recorded it with an acoustic guitar onto a cassette and went to see Stiff Records the next day. They signed her on the strength of that one song. She then fell out with one of the execs at Stiff who halted pressings of the record out of spite, so it was never the hit it should have been despite massive air play. The 7" vinyl is still quite a rarity today.

 

Tracey Ullman recorded the song in 1983, one of Pete Waterman's early protégées. Ullman was quite famous at the time and Waterman had heard she could sing a bit and so saw pound signs. It went to #2 in the UK and was only kept off #1 by Culture Club's "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" The line "bay-e-be-ee" in one of the choruses was sung by Kirsty MacColl because Ullman couldn't hit the note.

 

I thank you. 

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me was a year earlier mate, I'm pretty sure it's Karma Chameleon you were thinking of.

[Redder Lurtz]

28 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me was a year earlier mate, I'm pretty sure it's Karma Chameleon you were thinking of.

 

Simon Bates over here.

 

Yeah you're correct though. My mistake!