Walking Down Madison or ISENIH #24
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Oh my goddess, I FORGOT how much I love this song:I was aware of Kirsty prior to her "Electric Landlady" album because she had done several duets with The Pogues & Billy Bragg. But "Walking Down Madison" was the first time I'd heard her solo. Such a great song but so unrepresentative of the rest of this album. Most of it is really poppy & some of it kitschy. Some nice pop ditties mind you but not what I was expecting at all. And I do like Kirsty's voice."Walking Down Madison" was co-written with Johnny Marr and he played guitar & keyboards on the song, which I didn't know until now. No wonder I love it so much! Anything Marr does I love.I also just found out while researching this that Kirsty died in an unfortunate scuba diving accident in Cozumel, Mexico, December '00. She was hit by a speedboat while she was scuba diving with her husband & two sons(one of which was in the path of the oncoming boat & she pushed him out of the way but died immediately upon impact). How very sad but quite heroic! You can read more about it at the wiki link below. There was alot of controversy surrounding her death because it was a protected area for scuba diving so no boats were to be there.There were no vids for this album so here's a performance of "Your 15 Minutes Start Now" on the English show "French & Saunders": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl
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