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The Malady Lingers On - title history?
Posted on Fri, Jun 11 1999 at 8:42 a.m. PDT
by David T. <david@Morrissey-solo.com>
From Colin Snowsell:

Perhaps someone has already noticed this. I was flipping through a book I've had for ages called "Raising Hell: The Rebel in the Movies" by a London journalist named Terrence Pettigrew. I had never noticed it before but, the title of Chapter Ten is...The Malady Lingers On. Opposite is, a photo of Steve McQueen taken from The Great Escape. The book was published in 1986.

Did Morrissey take the title of his video compilation from the book? While I don't know if the phrase "The Malady Lingers On" has a history preceding this, but it looks as though Morrissey must have borrowed the title from this book.

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I think this is more likely a pun on the Irving Berlin tune, "The song is ended (but the melody lingers on" How clever.
mike
- Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:33:03 (PDT)



British comedian Les Dawson (also from Lancashire, like our Moz) had an autobiography entitled "The Malady Lingers On." Les Dawson is (was? is he still alive?) very famous in the UK, especially for his mother-in-law drag, Post Office TV ads, bad piano playing and hosting of deliberately crap BBC game show "Blankety Blank."

I'm not sure what year this autobiography was published, though. I can't find any info on this book on the Net, but I've actually seen it in a bookshop (in England).

elbowless

elbowless <elbowless@hotmail.com>
- Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 12:23:47 (PDT)



I'm sad to say, discussing issues like this one seems kind of sad. to even consider to comment on discussing issues like this might seem even sadder.
tomcat <tommygun@kurir.net>
sthlm - Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 17:58:04 (PDT)



Tommyboy sure has a point there, when you think about it discussing the origins of a video compilationthingies name is kinda lame.
DisCharmingJohan <familjen.isaksson@swipnet.se>
Sweden - Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 07:30:16 (PDT)



I don't find it lame or sad. Discussing origins of Morrissey's song titles or lyrics is part of a broader and rather, uh, lingering question regarding his willingness to borrow or take on loan. Whether an artist coins a phrase or steals the coin is a question to which thousands of people devote thousands of pages. Since Morrisey is regularly considered among the best lyricists of his day the question of whether the lyrics (or titles) are his or, say, borrowed without credit from Elizabeth Smart is entirely relevant.
MontyClift <snowselc@hotmail.com>
- Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 15:58:02 (PDT)





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