"Tim had asked me to do the entire November spawned a monster video naked. I explained to him that this would be impossible since my entire lower body had been destroyed by fire in 1965. His expression remained wide-eyed with belief as he replied, ‘Oh.’ After watching the video, my father commented, ‘Shirley Bassey will be furious,’ which left me momentarily puzzled."
Regards,
FWD.
í have always thought that Bassey quote a curious one.
Not that í would
ever wish to question Morrissey's taste in truths, but í have an inkling that what Moz
might actually be remembering is his father's viewing of the "
Hulmerist" VHS collection, which ends with the "
November Spawned A Monster" promotional film, but actually crescendos with Tim Broad's sublime stage montage of Wolverhampton wonders, set to the strains of Dame Bassey's "
You'll Never Walk Alone".
It's not the reaction that most of us here had to that glorious sequence {ie ~ puddled} but each to their own.
But as a reaction to the "
November..." film, it makes no sense.
But then, my declared reaction to "
November..." at the time ~ "
This..Man..is...SEX" ~ didn't appear to make sense to those around me in 1990...
So, í think that quote may be a case of either a Moz memory lapse (which abound in "
Autobiography") or him getting the wrong end of the stick, at the Family Viewing of "
Hulmerist" {imagine that scene...}
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