Not sure if this has been mentioned, but there is a big advert in The Guardian today for this coming Sunday's Observer Music Monthly, in which Johnny Marr interviews The Pet Shop Boys.
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joe frady
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In other PSB~esque news, the latest issue of 'The Word' was out today with a PSB cover and interview. At one point in the piece the journalist is talking about one of the tracks on their new album entitled 'King of Rome'. Neil interrupts to state "It's not about Morrissey!"
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kleinhond
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I don't get the relevance. Why would he say that?
Amy
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Well 'Getting Away with It' was about Morrissey...
Practising Troublemaker
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Well I can only assume it is because if Mozzer's connection with Rome and Italy.
It is a vague link though.
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Hope someone will post it here for us =)
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kleinhond
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King Of Rome
(Tennant/Lowe)
Small man, big world
Lost beyond the pale
I know you inside out
I can tell the tale
Across the sky a change of time
Last night I lost all day
I'm here and there, or anywhere
away from Mandalay
And if I were the King of Rome
I couldn't be more tragic
My fate to roam so far from home
In search of mindless magic
Oh, baby come back
Oh, baby come back to me
The desert moon, a new lagoon
We glide upon the surface
Night falls fast, no shadows cast
Arriving without purpose
Oh, baby call me
Oh, baby call me today
And if I were the King of Rome
I couldn't be more lonely
With so much scope to dream and hope
someday you'll deign to phone me
Oh, baby call me
Oh, baby call me today
I long for your inscrutable pale face
I hunger for your beautiful embrace
(Tennant/Lowe)
Small man, big world
Lost beyond the pale
I know you inside out
I can tell the tale
Across the sky a change of time
Last night I lost all day
I'm here and there, or anywhere
away from Mandalay
And if I were the King of Rome
I couldn't be more tragic
My fate to roam so far from home
In search of mindless magic
Oh, baby come back
Oh, baby come back to me
The desert moon, a new lagoon
We glide upon the surface
Night falls fast, no shadows cast
Arriving without purpose
Oh, baby call me
Oh, baby call me today
And if I were the King of Rome
I couldn't be more lonely
With so much scope to dream and hope
someday you'll deign to phone me
Oh, baby call me
Oh, baby call me today
I long for your inscrutable pale face
I hunger for your beautiful embrace
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kleinhond
Member
In addition, Roman references feature in two other songs on Yes. Neil T does like his history!
The Way It Used To Be
(Tennant/Lowe/Xenomania)
"Under the moon, address unknown
I can remember nights in Rome
I thought that love would last, a promise set in stone"
Building A Wall
(Tennant/Lowe)
"Jesus and The Man From UNCLE
Caesar conquered Gaul
Scouting for centurions on a Roman wall"
The Way It Used To Be
(Tennant/Lowe/Xenomania)
"Under the moon, address unknown
I can remember nights in Rome
I thought that love would last, a promise set in stone"
Building A Wall
(Tennant/Lowe)
"Jesus and The Man From UNCLE
Caesar conquered Gaul
Scouting for centurions on a Roman wall"
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kleinhond
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Not neccessarily. It depends on the context of the question, which isn't revealed. I still don't get why any interviewer would ask him something like "Is this song about Morrissey?" because Moz has spent a bit of time in Italy lately.
Does anyone have any quotes that state Getting Away With It is about Moz? I watched the Bernard Sumner Songbook last week and he certainly gave the impression that it wasn't...
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Bloody hell those are awful lyrics! I bet Morrissey hopes they are not about him, if I were him I wouldn't want to be associated with them.
joe frady
Vile Refusenik
Thank you kleinhond for providing the lyrics so swiftly.
The way I recall the article (I only briefly read it in my lunch hour) the writer didn't actually ask 'is this song about Morrissey?', he was merely refering to this song in some other context and Neil Tennant, unprompted, said 'it's not about Morrissey!'
Having read the lyric, awful or not, I could see how it might be construed as being about Moz. Reading it in the light of all Morrissey's recent interview references to having no fixed abode, calling nowhere home, etc. it kinda hits a nerve: 'And if I were the King of Rome/I couldn't be more tragic/My fate to roam so far from home/In search of mindless magic'.
And who else could 'I long for your inscrutable pale face' refer to, but M. ?
The way I recall the article (I only briefly read it in my lunch hour) the writer didn't actually ask 'is this song about Morrissey?', he was merely refering to this song in some other context and Neil Tennant, unprompted, said 'it's not about Morrissey!'
Having read the lyric, awful or not, I could see how it might be construed as being about Moz. Reading it in the light of all Morrissey's recent interview references to having no fixed abode, calling nowhere home, etc. it kinda hits a nerve: 'And if I were the King of Rome/I couldn't be more tragic/My fate to roam so far from home/In search of mindless magic'.
And who else could 'I long for your inscrutable pale face' refer to, but M. ?
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