"Music commentary:
40 Years After Sex Pistols' «God Save The Queen» Will Morrissey «Ax The Monarchy»
Majesty Insults.
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By
Tormod Halleraker
The pop star Morrissey has a strained relationship with the British royal house. It was rabaled when The Smith's released The Queen's Dead in 1986. The cover of Morrissey's new "Low in High School" release shows the son of the bassist in his band in front of Buckingham Palace with a sign called "Ax the Monarchy" in one hand and one ax in the other.
When the cover picture was first published, the store chain HMV was accused of refusing to sell the record due to the cover. But HMV was fast on the pitch and dismissed the boycott. In any case, it is not a matter of speed up the sale of records as a small censorship debate.
Steven Patrick Morrissey has advocated animal rights and vegetarian food, while lingering for whaling, reighing and burger restaurants. Some statements have been so rave that even the fans have begun to wonder if he has lost his rivets.
But it's the monarchy that really makes his commitment glow. Morrissey despises the royal. The Morrissey-designed cover on The Smith's album "The Queen is Dead" is admittedly chopped more subtly than his last work, with a sophisticated image of actor Alain Delon from the 1964 movie "L'Insoumis". The working title of the album was, on the other hand, more elusive: "Margaret on the Guillotine", with reference to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a sharp-sharp tool popularly during the French Revolution.
When the song appeared in 1988 on Morris's first solo album "Viva Hate", he was called for questioning by Scotland Yard. They would investigate if he posed any real threat to Mrs Thatcher after describing her death as a "wonderful dream." (After Thatcher's passing in 2013, he called her "a terror without an atom of humanity.")
In an interview with NME in 1986, Morrissey "The Queen is Dead" protested on the monarchy: "The idea of the monarchy and queen of England has been reinforced to appear more useful than it actually is. The whole thing seems like a joke. A horrible joke. "And when Queen Elizabeth II celebrated diamond jubilee five years ago, he said," A celebration of what? 60 years of dictatorship? »
Another queen's disorder that sparked fuss was when Sex Pistols released "Good Save The Queen" 40 years ago. The single was a furious attack on Queen Elizabeth II, at the same time as her silver jubilee. Both the BBC and other radio stations refused to play the song. Johnny Rotten explained the text as a reaction to the way the British working class had been treated, and as much an attack on the political regime as at the queen.
We have also had a couple of outcomes against the royal house at home. In 1980, Meat issued "No, no, no" with the line of text, "is it any uglier than the royals", and was censored by NRK. The same happened when the pals in sweet revenge sang "There is a witch in Skaugum. Do you know how hot? Sonja, Sonja, Sonja ». And when Prima Vera in 1981 released the album "The 5th" with a manipulated cover picture by the band members together with King Olav, Queen Elizabeth II and then Crown Prince Sonja, it was retrieved after a few days from the Cabinet Director of the Palace. With a new cover, the album was 23 weeks on the VG list - well helped by coverkontrovers.
But the Norwegian monarchy has mostly been in peace. Even Dagblad's revelations of the royal family's monetary spending over the last couple of years have fired Artist-Norway. What is the reason for someone else taking the verbal ax?"
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