Kirsty MacColl: A no-nonsense, bitter-sweet performer

Kirsty MacColl was a true English original, a singer-songwriter and interpreter of other people's songs who could slip easily between musical styles. She had a glorious voice and gift for wry observation and humour, matched with a no-nonsense approach to her work. She was a musicians' musician, and when she released her best of album, Galore, her contemporaries were queuing up to explain why she was important. For Bono she was "one in a line of great English songwriters that include Ray Davies, ...

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