Electric Landlady

One of music's great injustices is that Kirsty MacColl - a British singer best known in the US for writing Tracy Ullman's one hit and helping introduce the Pogues to America - was a wonderful singer and a great songwriter.

She was killed in a controversial scuba diving accident in Mexico in 2000.

She's one of the best female pop singers ever - and one who always came up a day late or a dollar short in finding the big, big time. A strike derailed distribution of her first album as the BBC was playing it to death; label bankruptcies stalled her later on. She was on the brink of wide recognition a third time when she died.

And of course, her flirtation with stardom was largely a pre-video thing - it's hard to find much video presence from her.

So it was fun - and a little sad - to find this little number, a vid for her second single, the hilarious "Terry", from 1980.

YouTube - Kirsty MacColl - Terry

Apropos not much. I just miss music being fun, sometimes...