# Kirsty MacColl has died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397 "2000-12-19T19:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/1 "2000-12-19T19:12:55Z")
In another thread in which I opined that [_A Fairytale of New York_ is the best Christmas song](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50016), **mattk** posted some sad news. Kirsty MacColl, who was half of the song’s duet, died after being hit by a boat. The full story is at [BBC News](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1078000/1078192.stm). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/2 "2000-12-19T19:16:23Z")
godDAMN… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/3 "2000-12-19T19:28:23Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Palandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@Palandine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palandine)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/4 "2000-12-19T19:33:57Z")
☹ Damn damn damn Well, at least I still have her on videotape singing “A Fairytale of New York” with the Pogues ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/5 "2000-12-19T19:35:18Z")
The only work of hers I know is her collaboration with The Pogues on “Red, Hot & Blue” doing “Miss Otis Regrets” and “It Was Just One Of Those Things.” Good cuts, both. How sad. ☹ Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/6 "2000-12-19T19:37:36Z")
Hit by a _boat_? Jesus. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/7 "2000-12-19T19:39:04Z")
How weird . . . I was **just listening** to a CD I put together that includes Tracey Ullman’s version of “They Don’t Know” when I saw this thread . . . That totally sucks. She was an excellent songwriter. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/8 "2000-12-19T19:44:19Z")
Darling While the firelight is low I’m disappearing Like the last of the snow And really it’s better this way We both know it’s over And we’ll never pass this way again Sunshine and the desert call to me And you know moonshine Makes you so blind you can’t see at all But whatever you feel It may not be real And baby we’ll never pass this way again I’m not the only love you’ll ever know Look to the stars above and wish it so Let me go From _We’ll Never Pass This Way Again_ ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/9 "2000-12-19T19:51:24Z")
I don’t even know what to say. Kirsty was an amazing singer. She will be missed… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/10 "2000-12-19T19:52:07Z")
Damn. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/11 "2000-12-19T20:21:51Z")
One of my favorite albums is her Greatest Hits package “Galore”. I guess I’ll go home and listen to it tonight ☹ Keith ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/12 "2000-12-19T20:51:47Z")
Johnny, on behalf of the vast majority of the SDMB board, please allow me to be the first to say… “Who!?”. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/13 "2000-12-19T20:51:47Z")
Crud. I only have _If I Should Fall from Grace With God_. Did like that song. Does **Bottle of Smoke** know about this? Whenever I’d beat my buddy at cards, he’d say: “You scumbag, you maggot. You cheap lousy faggot.” _sigh_ [sub]_softly sings: “The boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay…”_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/14 "2000-12-19T23:00:10Z")
Yeah, I heard about it when matt posted to Johnny’s _Fairytale_ thread. All I can say is Damn. I really loved her voice on that song – she made the whole thing work. But more than anything, I feel terrible for her kids. Jesus – hit by a boat in a swimming area while her kids were in the water with her?! ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/15 "2000-12-19T23:09:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*The only work of hers I know is her collaboration with The Pogues on “Red, Hot & Blue” doing “Miss Otis Regrets” and “It Was Just One Of Those Things.” Good cuts, both. How sad. ☹ > > Esprix \*\* Damn, Exprix, I thought I was the only one that had that CD. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/16 "2000-12-20T00:09:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Damn, Exprix, I thought I was the only one that had that CD. Nope. I mentioned it in the other thread before I started this one! I also taped the show when it aired. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/17 "2000-12-20T00:38:10Z")
She was one of my favorites. I interviewed her, twice, for a radio show. I have pretty much all of everything she released, most of it signed. This really bums me out. First Jeff Buckley, now Kirsty. Two of the best songwriters of the century. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/18 "2000-12-20T00:49:04Z")
Maeglin wrote: > [@](#): > > Hit by a _boat_? Jesus. Tell me about it. That’s like getting run over by an elevator. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/19 "2000-12-20T01:04:05Z")
Playing **Fairytale of New York** right now. How sad. And what a great voice. _… and the bells where ringing out for Christmas Day_. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397/20 "2000-12-20T01:31:04Z")
A fine singer-songwriter, and daughter of Scottish folk legend Ewan MacColl. She’ll be missed ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirsty-maccoll-has-died/46397.md?page=2)