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Sandie Shaw "Nothing Comes Easy" box set notes mention Morrissey/Smiths

posted by davidt on Thursday January 13 2005, @10:00AM
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The new Sandie Shaw box set "Nothing Comes Easy" has notes written by Sandie herself. In them she makes reference to her time working with The Smiths and Morrissey himself.

"Hand in Glove - I took the letters from Morrissey seriously, because Nick was friends with Geoff Travis who told me that Geoff had to talk to me. Geoff came 'round, tried to explain to me who this person, Morrissey, was, gave me more letters and left me some material and things like that - and said "Why don't you just meet him?" I said that I would think about it. I didn't understand it at first, and then when Morrissey came 'round and I met him, I think I understood. I had never seen anybody so controlled/excited - and it was quite unusual because most people you meet in this business are very small, much smaller than you imagine them to be - and he's very tall. And I thought that's a definite plus! Because I'm tall and I don't have to work with little squirts! I Don't Owe You Anything was the first song I did - I guess it won the group over as Morrissey was so for it. The letters, the first ones, were from him and Johnny - but I knew they were in Morrisseys writing, so I think they were all won over by I Don't Owe You Anything. It was as if someone had taken my shackles off - it felt so good. Really so good. Top Of The Pops was really smelly because they all took their shoes off! I think I had my shoes on and they went barefoot - and because Morrissey didn't have a part, he couldn't actually be in fornt of the camera so he was in the studio, down the side, swooning and being silly! He doesn't like me talking about this because it makes him look undignified - I don't think it does - it's such a key to unlock the person he is. The fact that he can see something in something and then everybody thinks "Oh" - it's one of those! It's so much of a gut feeling with him, there's no rhyme nor reason, but for some reason he had got affected by emotion conveyed in my recordings and it made some really deep connection in his life - I don't know, some sort of female alter-ego. His dream was for me to sing his songs. Which is a bit strange because most of his songs are homo-erotic songs but I found that fascinating - because it was something new to experiment with. His lyrics are brilliant - they really are brilliant."

Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness - fabulous, brilliant! I was at the Wool Hall when Morrissey did his (unreleased) version. I wrote the b-side "Lover of the century" with Mark Nevin who later went on to work with Morrissey - incestuous isn't it!"

All in all the box set is superb...all The Smiths recordings are there and the booklet contains pictures of Sandie with Mozzer as well as more mentions of their time together.

Worth checking out.
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  • Thank you very much for typing it all, now if someone could scan the pictures of the booklet it would be perfect! ;)
    Fredi <[email protected]> -- Thursday January 13 2005, @12:01PM (#146953)
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    I love them! Fun, nice, life, youths, beautiful I'm all for it!
  • Or is she very blunt!
    dazzak -- Thursday January 13 2005, @12:28PM (#146961)
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  • Her album "Hello Angel" was re-released last year and is really excellent.
    O'Muirgheasa -- Thursday January 13 2005, @02:36PM (#146968)
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    Perhaps my best years are gone.When there was a chance of happiness.But I wouldn't want them back.
  • "....because most of his songs are homo-erotic songs...."

    Thank you Sandy. I couldn't have said it better myself.
    Eric Hartman -- Friday January 14 2005, @01:32AM (#147043)
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    It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
  • I always got the feeling that Morrissey regretted working with Sandi Shaw and was disappointed by the way her recordings of his songs turned out Sandie the pushing 40 nurotic housewife did not have the charm of the teenage waif from Daganham who seemed like she simply opened her mouth and sang whatever came into her head or thats how morrissey saw her.Sandi turned slightly clen close after working with him and her obsessive nature really turned him off how mortified he must have been by "Steven you dont eat Meat" a song that hits new depths in awfulness!What seemed like a good idea at the time must have really haunted morrissey as Sandi refused to move on mentioning him in every interview and worst of all trying to write songs in a morrissey style that were just plane embarrasing.It took a big dose of HRT and a couple more husbands before Sandie stopped calling and writing "Steven Why have you abandoned me i thought you worshipped me!"
    Anonymous -- Friday January 14 2005, @05:01AM (#147062)
  • Intelligent comment lots of insight !

    Why even bother to post if that all you can come up with how fucking boring
    Anonymous -- Friday January 14 2005, @06:10AM (#147078)
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