One of the greats

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SINGER Kirsty MacColl’s sixty-fifth birthday last month. Instead, it’s now almost 24 years since her awful, untimely death. While diving with her sons in Cozumel, Mexico, a speedboat ploughed into their party: MacColl was killed pushing her sons to safety. This would have been devastating under any circumstances, but in MacColl’s case it seems particularly cruel, because it seemed as though, at 41, she still had so much more music to make. On the Latin-influenced album Tropical Brainstorm in 2000, she sounded happy, relaxed — joyful, even. After a stop-start career, finally she had found her groove. She’d had to work harder than most to get there. Stage fright and label issues had taken a toll on her over the years — though she started…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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