Billy Fury and Amanda Barrie - Why does Alma Matter?

[Tingle]

I was just reading up about Billy Fury [who would have been 65 yesterday if he hadn't died aged 42] and came across an excerpt from Amanda Barrie's autobiography (who played 'Alma Baldwin') in Coronation Street.

Interesting
[Why?]
Because she discusses having been attracted to women and men; and because Morrissey loves Billy Fury and wrote 'Alma Matters' about being OK with your feminine side if you're a man and your masculine side if you're a woman.

www.billyfury.com/gen/the_gen13.htm

 

[L]

> I was just reading up about Billy Fury [who would have been 65 yesterday
> if he hadn't died aged 42] and came across an excerpt from Amanda Barrie's
> autobiography (who played 'Alma Baldwin') in Coronation Street.

> Interesting
> [Why?]
> Because she discusses having been attracted to women and men; and because
> Morrissey loves Billy Fury and wrote 'Alma Matters' about being OK with
> your feminine side if you're a man and your masculine side if you're a
> woman.

> www.billyfury.com/gen/the_gen13.htm

tell that to the homophobes poluting this forum.

 

[-Girl Unafraid]

What utter tosh.. Any fool knows that it was the spooky foretelling of Diana's death that pre-empted the lyrics to Alma Matters.

Morrissey's lyrics to ALMA MATTERS refer us to an unnamed
'someone somewhere'
to whom
'Alma matters in mind
body and soul
in part and in hole'.
One month after the release of ALMA MATTERS,
Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, in the underpass beneath
Le Place d' ALMA.

[Does Morrissey's unexpected spelling of 'hole' in ALMA MATTERS
refer to the underpass beneath Le Place d' ALMA?]

To date, there had been more than 100 different Smiths/Morrissey record releases worldwide,
but there had never been one with a car on the cover until ALMA MATTERS:
On the front cover of ALMA MATTERS Morrissey is leaning on the hood of a car.
One month after the release of ALMA MATTERS,
Diana suffered fatal injuries in a car
in the ALMA underpass.

In January of 1998, an interview was published in which Morrissey was asked about Diana:

How did you react when you heard of Princess Diana's death?
Morrissey: It was so predictable. It was expected.

I rest my case.