That is a really excellent article. Thanks for the link.
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That is a really excellent article. Thanks for the link.
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Good article, despite a couple of factual errors that seem to have slipped in along the way (Alain Whyte didn't write 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday', for a start)
And another — on the TOTP performance of "The More You Ignore Me," he sang "you're asking for it / oh, and it you shall get" as opposed to the puzzlingly imagined "oh, I need to shag it"..But, obvious small things can be overlooked for the merit of the article. Yes — just give Nevin his due for "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday"!
Good article, despite a couple of factual errors that seem to have slipped in along the way (Alain Whyte didn't write 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday', for a start)
I like how they ponder if Billy Budd is about Johnny Marr - the chronology (1982 - 1994 "twelve years on") etc.
Personally I've always thought that was the case.
I posted this 10 or more years ago somewhere on the boards but I was once flipping through an edition of collected Melville works and noticed that novella Billy Budd was right next to Melville poem "John Marr". Surely no accident...
I can't take any article seriously which purports to tell the story of the sessions that does not include Alain Whyte.
Good article, despite a couple of factual errors that seem to have slipped in along the way (Alain Whyte didn't write 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday', for a start)
Did we read different articles?
Here's what I read:
"Two of its ten songs were hungover from previous work with Mark E Nevin (of Fairground Attraction, co-writer for most of KILL UNCLE and its associated singles), including Bowie-referencing melodrama I KNOW IT’S GONNA HAPPEN SOMEDAY. The remaining eight were new co-writes with Alain Whyte
I like how they ponder if Billy Budd is about Johnny Marr - the chronology (1982 - 1994 "twelve years on") etc.
Personally I've always thought that was the case.
Errors abound.
It's very tidy, but the song was written at latest in early 1993 and recorded that summer. By that timeline, we're back to 1981 which predated JM's first visit to Morrissey's house.
It may not refer to anyone real for all we know. The Melville reference could be a red herring.