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[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Film and Television]] | [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Film and Television]] | ||
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In [[Mention::Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance]], Rogan describes | In [[Mention::Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance]], Rogan describes: | ||
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"On the evening of Sunday 9 March 1980, he and a friend witnessed a fleet of flying saucers travelling across the sky in a hexagonal formation. The sighting lasted almost a full 10 minutes and rendered Stevie absolutely speechless. “The whole thing had an astonishing effect on me,” he told friends. For days afterwards, he felt inexplicably strange whenever he recalled the incident. The eerie encounter left him firmly convinced that the government was covering up the truth about UFOs. His susceptibility to such ideas no doubt originated long before the London sighting. Two years earlier, he had twice visited the cinema to see Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and was so impressed by the movie’s verisimilitude that he even purchased the lacklustre book of the same title. Now, he was the living proof that aliens scoured the Earth." | "On the evening of Sunday 9 March 1980, he and a friend witnessed a fleet of flying saucers travelling across the sky in a hexagonal formation. The sighting lasted almost a full 10 minutes and rendered Stevie absolutely speechless. “The whole thing had an astonishing effect on me,” he told friends. For days afterwards, he felt inexplicably strange whenever he recalled the incident. The eerie encounter left him firmly convinced that the government was covering up the truth about UFOs. His susceptibility to such ideas no doubt originated long before the London sighting. Two years earlier, he had twice visited the cinema to see Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and was so impressed by the movie’s verisimilitude that he even purchased the lacklustre book of the same title. Now, he was the living proof that aliens scoured the Earth." | ||