Kirsty Anna MacColl was a British singer and songwriter. She recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s. Her song \”They Don’t Know\” was covered with great success by Tracey Ullman. MacColl sang on recordings produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite.
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Kirsty Anna MacColl was a British singer and songwriter. She recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s. Her song \”They Don’t Know\” was covered with great success by Tracey Ullman. MacColl sang on recordings produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, most notably \”Fairytale of New York\” by The Pogues. She also sang on records produced or engineered for Robert Plant, The Smiths, Alison Moyet, Talking Heads, and The Wonder Stuff. She appeared in the videos for the Cheap Seats and Talking Heads videos for \”Welcome to the World\” and \”A New England\”, among others. She wrote and performed the theme song for Channel 4’s short-lived sitcom Dream Stuffing. She was the daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl and dancer Jean Newlove. She and her brother, Hamish MacColl, grew up with their mother in Croydon, where Kirsty attended Park Hill Primary School, Monks Hill High School and John Newnham High School. She came to notice when Chiswick Records released an EP by local punk rock band the Drug Addix with MacColl on backing vocals under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt. Stiff Records executives were not impressed with the band, but liked her and subsequently signed her to a solo deal. In 1983, Polydor dropped her just as she had completed recording the songs for a planned second album which used more synthesizers and had new wave-styled tracks.
In 1986, she contributed backing vocals for the Smiths song \”Ask\”. MacColl moved to Polydor Records in 1981. She had a number 14 UK hit with \”There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis\”, from her critically acclaimed debut album Desperate Character. In the United States, MacColl most likely recognisable as the writer of \”Theydon’t Know\”, when TraceyUllman turned it into a Billboard Top Ten hit. She sang back-up on the track, providing the \”Baay-byy\” because it was too high a pitch for Ull man. She left the label shortly before the song was to be released, and felt she lacked Stiff records’s full backing, and left the record company in 1986. She re-emerged in the British charts in 1987, reaching Number 2 with the track ‘The Pogues’ MacColl also set the sequencing for U2’s breakthrough album The Joshua Tree, for which Lillywhite provided mixes for which MacColl provided backing vocals. She said the experience helped her overcome her stage fright, which she said temporarily helped her temporarily overcome her fear of performing on stage. She died in a car crash in 2009. She is survived by her husband, Steve Lilly white, and her son, Jack, who lives in Los Angeles. She has a daughter and two step-daughters.
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