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Desperate Character (1981 cassette)

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Desperate Character (1981 cassette)
Desperate Character (1981 cassette)
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Track List

  1. Clock Goes Round
  2. See That Girl
  3. There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis
  4. Teenager in Love
  5. Mexican Sofa
  6. Until the Night
  7. Falling for Faces
  8. Just One Look
  9. The Real Ripper
  10. Hard to Believe
  11. He Thinks I Still Care
  12. There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (country version)

Album Information

  • Vocals: Kirsty MacColl
  • Guitars: Lu Edmonds, Billy Bremner, Malcolm Morley, Phil Rambow, Bazza
  • Bass: Glyn Havard, Paul Riley
  • Drums: Lee Partiss
  • Piano: Gavin Povey
  • Fiddle: Ben Mandelson
  • Baritone Sax: “Irish” John Earle
  • Tenor Sax: Ray Beavis, “Irish” John Earle
  • Trombone: Chris Gower
  • Trumpet: Dick Hanson
  • Vamping: Lew Lewis
  • Backing Vocals: Blanche McAdorey, Billy Bremner

Produced by Bazza (Barry Farmer)

Design and art direction: Rob O'Connor (Stylo Rouge)
Photography: Alan Ballard
Hand tinting: John Anderson

Catalog Details

Desperate Character (cassette)
Polydor POLSC1035
June 1981

Other Editions

Desperate Character (original LP)
Polydor POLS1035
June 1981

Desperate Character (2012)
Salvo SALVOCD58 (CD)
8 October 2012

Kirsty MacColl
Polydor SPELP95
Charisma 91232-1 (US)
March 1985

Kirsty MacColl (cassette)
Polydor SPEMC95
March 1985

Note: the ‘Kirsty MacColl’ edition was part reissue, part compilation containing as it does three songs from the scrapped second album, replacing three songs from the original.

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Other Compilations

  • Desperate Character (1981 LP)
  • Electric Landlady (1991 cassette)
  • Electric Landlady (1991 CD)
  • Electric Landlady (1991 LP)
  • Kite (1989 cassette)
  • Kite (1989 CD)
  • Kite (1989 LP)
  • Live At The Jazz Cafe, London, 12 October 1999 (2023 streaming only)
  • Real (1983 recording, 2023 digital release)
  • Titanic Days (1993 CD)
  • Titanic Days 1993 LP
  • Tropical Brainstorm (2000 CD)
  • Tropical Brainstorm (US CD 2000)
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voice of an angel

Kirsty MacColl in 2000, by Rita Carmo
© Rita Carmo

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