Kirsty MacColl Tribute 20-12-10 22:00 Radio 2

[george barker]

Kirsty MacColl: A Tribute, 20-12-10, Monday, 22:00 on BBC Radio 2.

Ten years after her death, Billy Bragg looks at the life of the singer and writer Kirsty MacColl.

Musical colleagues and friends such as Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Janice Long, David Byrne, Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Johnnie Walker, Tom Robinson and Phil Chevron (The Pogues), comment on Kirsty as a singer, songwriter and friend

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnsvm

 

[Kewpie]

Thank you very much George.

Right now BBC London's Robert Elms is doing his weekly slot of 4-Fa (four favourite tracks of a chosen artist / band), this week is Kirsty MacColl who was tragically taken away from us exactly 10 years ago today.

RIP.

 

[goinghome]

Also, BBC America are running a nice memorial piece about Kirsty MacColl here: http://blogs.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2010/12/18/kirsty-maccoll-remembered-10-years-later/

- U2 frontman Bono called her "the Noël Coward of her generation." And even if you don't know her name, you've heard her winsome voice in songs from The Smiths, Morrissey, Talking Heads, and most notably, on The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York," which has become a holiday standard. It was ten years ago today (December 18) that we lost Kirsty MacColl in a senseless, tragic boating accident in Mexico. She was only 41....