Kirsty mentions Morrissey in the Times of London dated 15 05 2000. Link:

Guys down the chip shop swear she's Elvis

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Unexpectedly but happily, Bono from U2 can answer that question. "Red hair, sharp tongue - she should be Irish; but I think of Kirsty as one in a line of great English songwriters that includes Ray Davies, Paul Weller and Morrissey. The No�lle Coward of her generation." He isn't wrong, and he's got celeb back-up to prove it. Morrissey, very much the Morrissey of his generation, noted that MacColl has "great songs and a crackin' bust. She is a supreme original - but not, as far as I know, one of the original Supremes." And Johnny Marr, who played guitar alongside Morrissey in the Smiths, reckons she has "the wit of Ray Davies and the harmonic invention of the Beach Boys. Only cooler."

We know all of this because in 1995, when she released her greatest hits album, MacColl enjoyed the fun bit of death without actually dying - she got her peers to write the sleevenotes in the form of a eulogy. Every rock luminary you can think of chipped in with tributes to her ability to write perfect pop singles, sing like an angel and drink them all under the table. Only Morrissey mentioned her breasts, though.

When I meet her today - in her own house this time, and drinking just tea, thank God - she admits it was Morrissey's tribute that touched her the most. "I was heavily impacted by him as a writer. He taught me that you can write about what you want to write about, and not all the stuff that was previously associated with pop lyrics." The wrinkle of her nose suggests she's thinking of moony-Juney-spoony stuff. "That made me a far better writer."