Kite is the breakthrough second album by Kirsty MacColl

Kirsty MacColl

Kirsty Anna MacColl was an English singer-songwriter.MacColl scored several pop hits from the early 1980s to the early 1990s...

, released in 1989. Produced by her then husband Steve Lillywhite

Steve Lillywhite

Steve Lillywhite is an English Grammy Award winning record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited for working on over 500 records and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Peter Gabriel,...

, it was her first album for Virgin Records

Virgin Records

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. The album including MacColl's hit cover of The Kinks

The Kinks

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' "Days

Days (The Kinks song)

Kirsty MacColl covered "Days" on her 1989 album Kite. It was released as a single and reached #12 on the UK singles chart, the same position achieved by The Kinks in 1969. It was re-released in 1995, charting much lower, only reaching #42 in the UK...

", as well as two tracks written with Smiths

The Smiths

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 guitarist Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr

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. The album was re-released in 2005 with 5 bonus tracks and alternate mixes of 4 songs on the album. On 6 October 1989 it was certified silver by the BPI

Track listing

All tracks composed by Kirsty MacColl; except where indicated.

Original track listing:

1. "Innocence" 4:09 (MacColl, Pete Glenister)
2. "Free World" 2:38
3. "Mother's Ruin" 3:57
4. "Days
   Days (The Kinks song)
   Kirsty MacColl covered "Days" on her 1989 album Kite. It was released as a single and reached #12 on the UK singles chart, the same position achieved by The Kinks in 1969. It was re-released in 1995, charting much lower, only reaching #42 in the UK...
   
   " 3:00 (Ray Davies
   Ray Davies
   Ray Davies, CBE is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for the Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave...
   
   )
5. "No Victims" 3:50
6. "Fifteen Minutes" 3:12
7. "Don't Come the Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!" 3:47
8. "Tread Lightly" 3:20
9. "What Do Pretty Girls Do?" 2:37
10. "Dancing in Limbo" 2:51
11. "The End of a Perfect Day" 3:23 (MacColl, Johnny Marr
    Johnny Marr
    Johnny Marr is an English musician and songwriter. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, with whom he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey. Marr has been a member of Electronic, The The, and Modest Mouse...
    
    )
12. "You and Me Baby" 2:31 (MacColl, Marr)

Bonus tracks on the CD re-issue:

1. "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" 2:50 (Morrissey
   Morrissey
   Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
   
   , Marr)
2. "La Forêt de Mímosas" 3:36
3. "Complainte Pour Ste Catherine" 3:33 (Anna McGarrigle
   Anna McGarrigle
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   , Philippe Tatartchef)

Personnel

• Kirsty MacColl - vocals, guitar, acoustic bass, steel guitar, autoharp, percussion
• Mark Berrow - violin
• Stuart Brooks - trumpet
• Paul Crowder - percussion, tambourine
• Ben Cruft - violin
• James Eller - bass
• Mel Gaynor
  Mel Gaynor
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   - drums
• Wilfred Gibson - violin
• Roy Gillard - violin
• David Gilmour
  David Gilmour
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   - guitar on "No Victims" & "You and Me Baby"
• Pete Glenister - guitar
• Malcolm Griffiths - trombone
• Steve Lillywhite
  Steve Lillywhite
  Steve Lillywhite is an English Grammy Award winning record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited for working on over 500 records and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Peter Gabriel,...
  
   - bass on "Fifteen Minutes"
• Robbie McIntosh
  Robbie McIntosh
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   - guitar on "Mother's Ruin", "Free World" & "Fifteen Minutes"
• Johnny Marr
  Johnny Marr
  Johnny Marr is an English musician and songwriter. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, with whom he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey. Marr has been a member of Electronic, The The, and Modest Mouse...
  
   - guitar, harmonica
• Yves N'Djock - guitar, vocals
• Pino Palladino
  Pino Palladino
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   - bass
• Guy Pratt
  Guy Pratt
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   - bass
• Jamie Talbot
  Jamie Talbot
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   - tenor saxophone on "Fifteen Minutes"
• Philip Todd - clarinet on "Fifteen Minutes"
• Fiachra Trench
  Fiachra Trench
  Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench is a musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland....
  
   - string & brass arrangements
• Steve Turner - harmonica, guitar, effects on "Don't Come the Cowboy"
• Dave Woodcock - violin
• Gavyn Wright
  Gavyn Wright
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   - violin
• Guy Barker
  Guy Barker
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  - trumpet
• Colin Stuart - guitar
• David Palmer - drums, percussion

External links

• Kite at Kirsty MacColl.com