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Fri 11 Nov 2007Wicklow discoShe's always had the music in her, but Wicklow singer Róisín Murphy needed to go solo in order to fulfil her big ambition. She talks sequins with Jim Carroll.SHE always wanted to be a disco queen. Even when she was the accidental pop star who fronted Moloko and had hits like Sing It Back, she thought about disco. When she hooked up with Matthew Herbert for Ruby Blue, her first solo album, she told him she wanted to make a disco album. But it never happened.