Sunday, 2 October 2011

How can you stay with the fat girl who'll say...

Driving back to East Anglia tonight and listening to Steve Lamacq...

He played William, it was really nothing by the Smiths, apparently Red Rhino are releasing all 8 Smiths cds remastered by Jonny Marr...

I don't think I'll be buying it...  but I remember when it was released as a single in 84 or 85 (more likely) it was the follow up to 'Heaven knows I'm miserable now...' and both releases manged to coincide with hospital appts I think. I certainly remember mum treating me to the one of those after a particularly crap visit to the South Hants - it might have even been when they put me in on the crap low protein diet? I remember going into Woolworths with her and and coming out with that little bit of vinyl encased in some arty smiths sleeve - it was probably a still from a British 60's film. Viv what's her name was on the back of 'Heaven' but that was more to do with her looking like one of the protagonists featured in the b side of that, which was 'Suffer the little children'.

The cover of 'William' was a bloke on a bed with his head in his hands, the pic had a greenish tint I think.
- Just checked and it was a still from a film called the 'leather boys' I can guess what sort of film it was now... What did my 14 year old brain think of that? I can't remember!

Anyway, I remember really liking the B side too... "Please please please, let me get what I want' and not feeling all that shortchanged by the total running time of the single, which was just about 4 minutes!

Anyway it's time for bed

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