SPANNING a 20-year career rather than the usual five minutes of Top 40 fame usually required to churn out a greatest hits album these days, the 21-track album contains all the classics the Croydon-born singer was renowned for.
It kicks off with They Don't Know, the first song she wrote and recorded in 1979 which became a hit for Tracey Ullman.
MacColl had her first taste of chart success two years later with the wonderfully-titled There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis.
In 1985 came her biggest hit, A New England, which was later followed by Days and Walking Down Madison.
Also featured is her collaboration with The Pogues on Fairytale of New York, possibly the best Christmas song of all time, Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things, also with the Pogues, and Perfect Day, with Evan Dando, lead singer of the Lemonheads.
The singer's life was cut short when, aged 41, she was killed by a speedboat while diving off the coast of Mexico.
Five years on, this album is an admirable collection of her greatest work.
MC
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