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Shelagh Delaney is listed as a one of the "Heroes" in the Morrissey questionnaire culled from Meat Is Murder Tour Programme.<ref name="fismithsvoice"/> | Shelagh Delaney is listed as a one of the "Heroes" in the Morrissey questionnaire culled from Meat Is Murder Tour Programme.<ref name="fismithsvoice"/> | ||
Morrissey | From an interview with Morrissey in NME, June 7, 1986 ("Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" - interview by Ian Pye):<ref name="finme19860607"/> | ||
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"Obviously most people who write do borrow from other sources. They steal from other's clothes lines. I mentioned the line 'I dreamt about you last night and I fell out of bed twice' in 'Reel Around The Fountain,' which comes directly from A Taste Of Honey, and to this day I'm whipped persistently for the use of that line. I've never made any secret of the fact that at least 50 percent of my reason for writing can be blamed on Shelagh Delaney who wrote A Taste Of Honey. And 'This Night Has Opened My Eyes' is a Taste Of Honey song - putting the entire play to words. But I have never in my life made any secrets of my reference points. Just because there's one line that's a direct lift people will now say to me that 'Reel Around The Fountain' is worthless, ignoring the rest of it which almost certainly comes from my brain. Oscar Wilde... I've found so many instances where he has directly lifted from others. To me that's fine. But because I'm so serious about writing, people are so serious about tripping me up." | What he objects to are those smug anal retentives who think they've found you out and denounce your entire canon of work as tainted by theft. "Obviously most people who write do borrow from other sources," he contends. "They steal from other's clothes lines. I mentioned the line 'I dreamt about you last night and I fell out of bed twice' in 'Reel Around The Fountain,' which comes directly from ''A Taste Of Honey'', and to this day I'm whipped persistently for the use of that line.<br/> | ||
"I've never made any secret of the fact that at least 50 percent of my reason for writing can be blamed on Shelagh Delaney who wrote A Taste Of Honey. And 'This Night Has Opened My Eyes' is a ''Taste Of Honey'' song - putting the entire play to words. But I have never in my life made any secrets of my reference points.<br/> | |||
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"Just because there's one line that's a direct lift people will now say to me that 'Reel Around The Fountain' is worthless, ignoring the rest of it which almost certainly comes from my brain. Oscar Wilde... I've found so many instances where he has directly lifted from others. To me that's fine. But because I'm so serious about writing, people are so serious about tripping me up." | |||
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<ref name="wshelagh_delaney">{{cite | title=Shelagh Delaney Wikipedia page | url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelagh_Delaney | pub=Wikipedia | author= | date= | dom=Wikipedia.org | type=ext }}</ref> | <ref name="wshelagh_delaney">{{cite | title=Shelagh Delaney Wikipedia page | url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelagh_Delaney | pub=Wikipedia | author= | date= | dom=Wikipedia.org | type=ext }}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="finme19860607">{{cite | title=Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | url=http://foreverill.com/interviews/1986/mothers.htm | pub=NME | author= | date= | dom=Forever Ill | type=ext }} | ||
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<ref name="fismithsvoice">{{cite | title=Questionnaire culled from Meat Is Murder Tour Programme | url=http://foreverill.com/voice.htm | pub=Meat Is Murder tour programme | author= | date= | dom=Forever Ill | type=ext }} | <ref name="fismithsvoice">{{cite | title=Questionnaire culled from Meat Is Murder Tour Programme | url=http://foreverill.com/voice.htm | pub=Meat Is Murder tour programme | author= | date= | dom=Forever Ill | type=ext }} | ||