The daughter of folk capo Ewan MacColl, she emerged in the punk slipstream, signing to Stiff in 1979 and unleashing the fizzing girl-pop of "They Don’t Know", later a huge hit for Tracy Ullman. She ...
If it had happened in one of her songs, we would have laughed at the absurdity of it. Kirsty MacColl’s death at the age of 41, which occurred when a pleasure boat struck her as she swam in the Gulf of ...