i agree

Yes a Spanish millionaire who was reportedly drunk while in charge of his boat and in an area that was out of bounds to boats. one One of his employees took the rap and the man with the money walks away scot free

Not a Spanish but a Mexican millionaire

@@cherlie118 apparently....

@@cherlie118 Same difference.

Perhaps if Kirsty had frequented your chippie, the song might have been called "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Not Elvis" with a chorus including "But he's a star and I'm not sure that's true."... 😹

T S Everyone keeps saying I am the double of her. My late husband wanted to marry her and when he saw me he got his wish. lol

And that the person who DID murder her didn't serve a day. He paid a servant to basically spend a couple of days in jail and pay an astonishingly small fine.

We never mourne those who fulfilled their destiny

Very sad indeed!

100 percent agree a unique voice also rest in peace kirsty

As a young man, just out of high school, before college, I worked as a deckhand on a tugboat, we were in Memphis and the supply boat brought out our stores, and a newspaper with the news of Elvis' passing.

Great story.

Rest In Peace Kirsty we still love you xx

Well said mate

I worked construction in the 80s and the plumbers used to be dancing around the job when this song came on the radio. Every one of them wanted to be the guy in the chip shop!

came for elvis got an education instead ;)

Fuck yes!

I'm so sorry Damm

She was killed bye a speed boat on holiday

Only appreciated once she's left us did not realize how attractive she was

Spot on there mate.

@@terrymcgill2798 yes she was very sad she was decapitated by the prop of the boat😪😪😪

She was Jimmy...brilliant singer..

Bat Who Killed HER? Millioner, or not? Russia love & remember Kristy.

@@sudfac Mexican Billionaire and Coward Guillermo Gonzalez Nova, who never showed the decency or humanity to face the family or the Mexican courts.

@steelblue58, I follow a brilliant woman y/t & she connects all kinds of dots. A while back she spoke pedos and human trafficking rings down there & as soon as she (Amazing Polly) mentioned it, I thought of Kirsty & what did she know? From what I have learned about Kirsty, is that was an avid diver & excellent swimmer. It's utterly tragic that no one was held accountable for her death. I often think of her children & how they are getting along without her. Truly One of the Greatest Artists. God Rest her Soul🙏➕🙏

@@phillyirishlass6513 Someone was held accountable for her death, it was just the wrong guy. Gonzalez paid a deck hand named Jose Cen Yam to take the fall for him. He confessed to driving the boat (despite the testimony of eye witnesses and the fact that he had never driven the boat before), served some time in prison, and had to pay "reparations" to the family based on his wages. Of course, his wages were next to nothing. Also, Gonzalez had been drinking and would have been charged with much more than the negligent homicide charge that Cen Yam took. All to protect the billionaire.

is that rockpile? sounds like edmunds for shure.

@@MrStupidHead Hi I saw Billy but thats all I can spot and hear or am I missing something x

Don’t say that. There are so many great female artists! Men just need to open their eyes and hearts

Another old fart saying people aren't as good as when they were young .

It's mimed.

im 28 wasnt even born when this song was made. You're right, Their is nobody like Kirsty and never will be.

yep in the sea with her children, some rich tosser ran her down in his power boatm she pushed her child out the way, and was nearly cut in half, he never got charged as he said he was not driving the boat

@Ronald Vincent yes B side of the single

Billy Bremner on Guitar might have a lot to do with it.....

V true

@@DaveInBridport Good eyes, mates! Def could have been a Nick Lowe number

Or Robyn Hitchcock.

Barry Farmer , did loads of stuff for Stiff records

They don't know what a Chip Shop is in Nashville; they'd probably change it to Drug Store, or something like that. I wouldn't want to hear it....

@@Zacharia503 Freedom Fries Store doesn't really has the same ring to it, does it?

@John Perry. Sir, you may already know this. If you can find the original 7 inch 45rpm single Kirsty recorded a "country" version of this song for the "B"- side. Well worth looking for just to hear what you are familiar with being taken somewhere else. Thank you for all of the fabulous music you left us Kirsty McColl. So sad that your life was ended well before it's time. RIP ma'am.

@@markmiwurdz202 Thank you for the heads up. Ms. McColl was a true gem. Stolen from us way before her time.

Agreed

It's about her ex husband Steve lilywhite and he said that thier marriage was over when she wrote this. It's in a documentary about her life

They were both going their separate ways. She said that she was writing a song but would not say what it was. She sent him the tape with lyrics and he read it especially the line about he is a liar and I am not sure about you. He knew how she felt.

Yes, I saw it that way as well.

I know how you feel .It still hurts. The way they treat women artists XX

Who was the clown?

Well said.

So true; he needed a slap...

Still got Billy Bremner on guitar though and he may be no stranger to the chippy.

Hangover?

@@markrainford1219 it was the 70s so you'd think so but no

Yeah, he wasn't a great presenter -- a bit patronising even

More than he did

And the announcer pissed me off too, lol

Uno annalon You have got it wrong Kirstys ex husband Steve Lillywhite took care of her children after she passed away not Toyah*.

I totally agree, she was a lovely lady, sadly missed. Great to see this clip.

Agree. I didn't realize her father wrote Dirty Old Town

And quite gracious as well, coz the interviewers' fave song by her father, happens to be the one written for the woman her dad left her mum for - at a time when they were still married. But no twitch to be seen when he mentions that, except may be, her fave song by her old man happens to be a totally different one. Tops !

@@reuireuiop0 I actually thought the host was a disrespectful twat. Beautiful performance, though.

You mean her son(s).

she was a one helluva gal.....