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"With his agreement, I once wrote to a Morrissey fan website forum under the pseudonym Abigail Lawson to point out that ‘Little Man, What Now?’ was not, as popularly believed, a lyric about the British child actor Jack Wild. It is a circumstantial verse to the actor Malcolm McFee who appeared in the 1970s British television series, Please Sir! Abigail Lawson received no less than seventy-five death threats. Impressive." | "With his agreement, I once wrote to a Morrissey fan website forum under the pseudonym Abigail Lawson to point out that ‘Little Man, What Now?’ was not, as popularly believed, a lyric about the British child actor Jack Wild. It is a circumstantial verse to the actor Malcolm McFee who appeared in the 1970s British television series, Please Sir! Abigail Lawson received no less than seventy-five death threats. Impressive." | ||
The "fan website forum" in question appears to be Morrissey-solo. "Abigail Lawson" posted the [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/31/1552222 following forum post] on July 31, 2004: | |||
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Abigail Lawson writes: | |||
I am a source close to Morrissey. | |||
I feel moved to write to you to correct the post by Miranda Grey that Jack Wild is the inspiration behind "Little Man, What Now". | |||
"Little Man, What Now" is most positively not inspired by the child actor Jack Wild, and in no way refers to him. | |||
The words to the aforementioned song are concerned with a British actor called Malcolm McFee who appeared in two (UK) situation comedies in the early 1970s: "Please, Sir!" and "The Fenn Street Gang". He also appeared briefly in the film "Oh What A Lovely War!" (1969). | |||
He died of cancer in Braintree, Essex in November, 2001. | |||
I hope this lays to rest the Wild misapprehension." | |||
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