“Kirsty MacColl was a bright ... though five years later it cracked the Top Ten singles chart in the U.S. when covered by Tracy Ullman. MacColl made her own splash on the U.K. charts with ...

Kirsty MacColl began her music career as backing vocalist Mandy Doubt for local punk band The Drug Addix and was later signed by Stiff Records as a soloist. Her debut single for the label in 1979 ...

Singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl has died after an accident on a diving holiday ... Fairytale of New York, and the hit single There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis. MacColl's ...

As a result, the single failed to make it onto the UK Singles ... When Stiff Records went bankrupt in 1986, Kirsty MacColl couldn’t record her own music because no other label bought her contract.

Irish folk band The Pogues joined forces with pop singer Kirsty Maccoll in 1987 for Fairytale of New York, one of the most well-known and beloved modern Christmas standards in the UK. Denied ...

IRELAND’S TOP TEN SINGLES, DECEMBER 25, 1987 1 Fairytale Of New York The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl 2 Always On My Mind Pet Shop Boys 3 Let’s Wash Our Socks For Christmas Junkbox Band 9 Heaven ...

KIRSTY MacColl and her band are remembered for giving us what's considered the greatest Christmas song of all time. Here we take a look at the life, music, and tragic death of the singer who found ...