Lost in the ’90s: Kirsty MacColl, “Walking Down Madison”

She’s the voice you hear on the Smiths’ “Ask” and Morrissey’s “Interesting Drug.”  She’s the salty dame calling Shane McGowan a “cheap lousy faggot” on the Pogues’ “Fairtytale Of New York.”  And she’s one of the most underrated songwriters of the ’90s and one of our biggest losses. I will go to my grave never understanding [...]

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