Artist: Kirsty MacColl
Author: Kirsty MacColl
Label: Stiff
Year: 1979

Debut single, two years before There's A Guy Works Down The Chips Shop (Swears He's Elvis). On a demo ending up on Liam Sternberg's desk. He went for the only slow song on that tape. The rest was punky Drug Addix stuff, Kirsty's first band.

Tracey Ullman's biggest British hit was not Sunglasses, Move Over Darling or even Breakaway. She borrowed this one from her label mate Kirsty MacColl. Struck by a motorboat while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico ranges amongst the more spectacular rock 'n roll ends. Odd destiny for the daughter of a folk monument (Ewan MacColl). Kirsty was a rebel, growing up on fast food instead of lentils. Elvis look-alikes in chip shops don't have anything in common with folk, do they? At 41 she didn't even reached his age.