Kirsty MacColl: real songs for girls who grow up to be women

She first saw Kirsty on TV when she was nine, but the penny dropped for Jude Rogers in her 20sHer name got me first – Kirsty. It was such an ordinary name, much more suitable for girls in my school than people on Top of the Pops. But there she was: Kirsty MacColl. Wearing a coat far too big for her, resting her elbow on the BBC piano as if it was a bar, looking bored senseless, waiting for an imaginary gin that would never arrive. Then the man with the jumble of teeth playing the piano stopped...

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