Obituary
Jill Sobule, a groundbreaking American songwriter whose hit I Kissed a Girl is widely considered the first song with openly-gay themes to crack the Billboard Top 20, has died in a house fire in the US city of Minneapolis, her publicist has said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4l9nxjd0o
One of my faves, and guitarist on my favourite Lloyd Cole album, The Negatives.
So long, Jill.
That’s very sad news – this is one of her many gems – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSAWJIUMwAw
I am sad to hear this. I saw Jill at on August 2005 Summer Sundae in the grounds of De Montford Hall, Leicester. She was great.! I have a few photos of her show including when she introduced a song that she had just written and had never previously played. She enlisted a stagehand to stand opposite her holding her laptop open so that she could read the words off the screen while playing her little travel guitar.
That is extremely sad news. I saw her once solo and once with Lloyd Cole and the Negatives.
A wonderfully charismatic artist with enormous, warmth, charm, humour and charisma.
Well, you just made me a fan. This is brilliant.
Terrible news.
I was listening to this only this morning:
Very sad news.
I saw Ms Sobule supporting Billy Bragg in March 2004.
She was terrific.
I saw her supporting Billy Bragg too. Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Probably the same tour, but I can’t remember what year. I remember her saying something along the lines of her bush being more useful than the one in the White House.
Jill’s first album, THINGS HERE ARE DIFFERENT, recorded in 1990, was produced by Todd Rundgren.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Here_Are_Different
Here’s the opening track
it was all very stop start according to wiki
Sobule’s debut album Things Here Are Different was released in 1990. Produced by pop legend Todd Rundgren, the album failed to sell. During this period a follow-up record was produced by British New Wave rocker Joe Jackson (for whom she opened in 1991) but Sobule was dropped from her label and the second record was never released. It was five years before Sobule landed another recording contract.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Sobule
Really awful