Morrissey and Marr by Johnny Rogan

Morrissey and Marr by Johnny Rogan

Author:Johnny Rogan [Rogan, Johnny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-85712-128-8
Publisher: Music Sales Corp.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


* Later in The Smiths’ career, Maker did join the group onstage briefly during a gig at St Austell, Cornwall.

* This isn’t to say that Morrissey necessarily deserves credit for the phrase “take and mount me like a butterfly”. Long before Exit Smiling that line appeared in Molly Haskell’s From Reverence To Rape, which Morrissey had read some time before.

* The Troy Tate tapes comprised: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle’, ‘You’ve Got Everything Now’, ‘these Things Take Time’, ‘What Difference Does It Make?’, ‘Hand In Glove’, ‘Handsome Devil’, ‘Accept Yourself, ‘I Don’t Owe You Anything’, ‘Reel Around The Fountain’, ‘Wonderful Woman’, ‘Jeane’, ‘suffer Little Children’, ‘Pretty Girls Make Graves’and ‘Miserable Lie’Three of the above titles, ‘these Things Take Time’, ‘Handsome Devil’and ‘Accept Yourself, were eventually excluded from the first album in favour of ‘still 111’

* Marr actually claimed in NME: “I’ve got a younger brother who is 11, who on the day it was in The Sun went to school and was hassled by kids…” However, the piece was actually run on 25 August during the summer holidays.

* In ‘Reel Around The Fountain’, for example, the lines “I dreamt about you last night and I fell out of bed twice” and “you’re the bee’s knees but so am I” were taken from Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste Of Honey. The same play offered the theme of ‘this Night Has Opened My Eyes’with such lines as “wrap her up in the News Of The World… “ and “the dream is gone but the baby is real”. As indicated earlier, the “butterfly” line previously occurred in Molly Haskell’s From Reverence To Rape

* In an early appraisal of The Smiths, Nick Kent suggested that ‘Jeane’and ‘Wonderful Woman’might have been inspired by Morrissey’s friend Linder, although there are no specific references or allusions to her in either song. A more likely source for ‘Jeane’is Morrissey’s aunt, Jeane Sheppard. Additionally, it might be worth noting that the bastard child of Oscar Wilde’s friend (and possible lover) Lillie Langtry was named Jeane.



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