Michael Legge Online - Crap
Blimey, the whole Morrissey thing has blown out of all proportion. Any Morrissey fans who have not signed my guestbook: PLEASE STOP!!!! Don't worry the tracks will definitely appear on a secret website very, very soon (within two weeks, anyway). The quite sad news is that not enough people seemed interested in the comedy gig/tracks playback. Pity, I thought it was a good idea. I'll let you know next week where you can find the tracks (although to be honest, it's slightly out of my hands)...

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Morrissey may have received gracious letters from thespians Alain Delon and Billie Whitelaw consenting to the use of their images on, respectively, 'The Queen Is Dead' and the re-issued 'William, It Was Really Nothing' single, but others weren't so amenable. Terence Stamp's demand that his photograph should be removed from 'What Difference Does It Make?' in 1984 was just the beginning: Albert Finney declined to be on the cover of 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now', George Best turned down 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side' and Harvey Keitel missed the chance to be on 'Strangeways Here We Come'. Morrissey himself chose not to use alcoholic teacher Laurence Olivier caning Terence Stamp's hand from the 1962 movie Term Of Trial, while Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey dressed as women from 1959's Carry On Constable was voluntarily exorcised as lacking in finesse. "The whole Stamp-Finney attitude was so petty," said Morrissey in 1984. "I love those people, regardless of what they say, regardless of how disinterested they can get. I'll try to understand it and I'll still love them. It is quite tragic, really."