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.
Covers:
Tracey Ullman [n°2 UK, top 10 US, with Kirsty on backing vacals]
Nailpin [hit B]
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.
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