Sue Carroll Sue Carroll Susan Elizabeth "Sue" Carroll (6 December 1953 – 25 December 2011) was an English journalist, best known for her time as a columnist at the "Daily Mirror". Carroll was born in 1953 at Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After leaving Gosforth Grammar School she joined D. C. Thomson & Co. in Dundee, Scotland. Working on the weekly teenage girls magazine "Jackie" she assisted on its "Cathy and Claire" problem page and then moved on to write the magazines fashion and beauty features. Aged 20 she moved to London to work as features editor for "Woman". Employed for her ability to extract
Claire and Friends and Michael, the pair who were responsible for the 1978 #1 hit "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"). Usher submitted the demo to a talent-spotting feature on the children's television programme "Saturday Superstore", where it beat a thousand other entries. This was followed by a second single, "Superman" (which continued the story from the original hit), and an album, mostly of cover versions with a few further originals by Coleman, entitled "Super Claire", neither of which had the same commercial success. Claire and Friends' hit was released on both 7" and 12" vinyl; however in January 1987 chart analyst