TLDW; We won't know until Morrissey says whether it is or isn't.
Blimey. It reads like The Crucible.American conspiracy communities are picking up all sorts of weird things, so someone is probably interested. Tortoise made an interesting podcast about American cranks becoming obsessed with a school in Hampstead which shows how these things spread.
It's quite grim, so I won't directly link to it - but the Guardian had a piece about it, if you want to find it.
Hoaxed: a podcast investigation of Hampstead’s satanic paedophile ring – which doesn’t exist
This new series explores a conspiracy theory that has destroyed the lives of hundreds of north London parents and teachers – despite its baseless allegationswww.theguardian.com
As someone reasonably familiar with both the Savile scandal and Smiths music said, if Morrissey was writing about Savile, he would have had no qualms spelling it out, since intimidation and risk never put a brake on his tongue yet!It´s a bit of a stretch to suggest the song is about Jimmy Saville - the looming nuclear disaster story hs always sounded more credible - but Saville was no doubt one of the DJs the song wished to see swinging from a gallows. I always remember my mum saying there is something creepy about that man. I think women saw through him a mile away. But God bless the BBC for telling the nation he was a hero.
The maker of the video has a whole series of a similar speculative nature - there is one on the hidden meaning of Sergent Pepper which is worth a watch.
Didn’t Chernobyl happen the after the song came out?
no because anyone who mentioned him in a negative way then on live broadcasts ect would be blacklistedSurely, if it were about Saville, it would've been his face on the T-shirt, not Wright's.
So the song was probably be written in April.No. Chernobyl happened in April, the song was released in July, 1986.
I'm going to make a video and say William it was really nothing is Prince Harry telling his brother that being in the royal family and shagging Kate Middleton is really nothing.Honestly it really irks me to hear anyone deny that it's partly a warning about Savile. To me it's borderline undeniable. I can't even be bothered to make a case for it. It just is.
I'm going to make a video and say William it was really nothing is Prince Harry telling his brother that being in the royal family and shagging Kate Middleton is really nothing.
I fully expect you to back me on this and lead the defence.....
Yes, you're right. That's what that song means too.I'm going to make a video and say William it was really nothing is Prince Harry telling his brother that being in the royal family and shagging Kate Middleton is really nothing.
I fully expect you to back me on this and lead the defence.....
For f*** sake are we allowed to swear here? You got meAlso little-known is that 'World Peace is None of Your Business' is secretly about Rolf Harris. That's why there's a didgeridoo on it. The 'poor little fool' lyric is a references to the little children who were fooled by Rolf's act, many of whom were working class. Brazil, Bahrain, Egypt, & Ukraine were also all stops on Rolf's 'Sun Arise' tour of 1974 - look it up if you don't believe me.
Honestly it really irks me to hear anyone deny that it's partly a warning about Savile. To me it's borderline undeniable. I can't even be bothered to make a case for it. It just is.