Free World (song)
"Free World" is a song by British singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl, which was released in 1989 as the lead single from her second studio album Kite. It was written by MacColl and produced by Steve Lillywhite. "Free World" reached number 43 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 100 for seven weeks. Background Speaking to the Evening Times in 1989, MacColl said of the song: "It's really about greed. But it's all part of the great divide between North and South. This Government has probably done more than any other to worsen it." She added in an interview with New Musical Express: ""Free World" is very direct and simple; hopefully it'll make people think a bit. The subject matter is Thatcherite Britain – you know, grab whatever you can and sod the little guy. That's a fashionable way of looking at things, and I don't agree with it." Release MacColl's label, Virgin, had originally intended to release her version of the Kinks' "Days" as the lead single from Kite, but MacColl felt the first single had to be one which she wrote. She told James Bennett in 1994, "I was very proud of 'Free World' and