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Kirsty MacColl

Croydon, United Kingdom • 1959-10-10 – 2000-12-18

Kirsty MacColl is credited on 1,457 releases across 249 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1976–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,457

Pressings credited

249

Albums

Decades active

498

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Biography

Kirsty Anna MacColl (, mə-KAWL; 10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was a British singer and songwriter. The daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl, she recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" and cover versions of Billy Bragg's "A New England" and the Kinks' "Days". She also sang on a number of recordings produced by her husband Steve Lillywhite, most notably "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. Her first single, "They Don't Know", would have chart success a few years later when covered by Tracey Ullman. Her death in 2000 led to the "Justice for Kirsty" campaign.

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