Everything about Kirsty Mac Coll defied the conventional pop category, yet she embraced & defended the genre, redeeming it with literate writing that had seldom been seen in British pop since.
Her music was funny, irreverent & endearingly catchy & her five albums in almost twenty years became symbolic rescue missions to retrieve British pop music from all that was saccharine & shallow, manufactured & mainstream.
Overcoming agonising stage fright, long periods of writers block & depression, she created a hugely successful solo career & collaborated with a legion of people from the Rolling Stones to the Happy Mondays, &, most famously, The Pogues, with Fairytale of New York.
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780233003931
• Author: Karen OBrien
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 236
• Dimensions: 20.5 x 14 x 2.5cm