Miss Marple
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Morrissey mentioned the character in A Suitable Case For Treatment - New Musical Express (December 22-29, 1984).
I still like the idea of songs being virtual conversation pieces - 'tell me, why is your life like this?' dictating... ha ha, well not really. But I like the idea of being the sympathetic vicar.
Do you know Stringer Davis? He's in a lot of Miss Marple films. He's her good friend. Very sympathetically he'd listen to all her japes and problems. Well, like him.
Morrissey used a Miss Marple clip from Murder She Said in pre-show videos.
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Margaret Rutherford
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Wikipedia Information
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterised as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen. Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, "The Tuesday Night Club", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, and her last appearance was in Sleeping Murder in 1976.