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Viv Nicholson on Morrissey, Observer July 6th 2003

posted by davidt on Friday July 11 2003, @10:00AM
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From Sunday's Observer magazine (6/7/03 - What happened next?) - Viv Nicholson on Morrissey:

I've long been associated in people's mind with Morrissey. The first time I met him was in Blackpool after he sent me an invitation to go see him. When I walked towards the venue where he was playing, I was quite astounded when I saw all these big effigies of me. I thought, Wow, he only asked for a little photograph for the record cover, and there were all these posters of me all over the place. When I went in, I was asked to go up on stage. There was this young man wearing a hearing aid and thick-rimmed spectacles with a tree hanging out of his backside, and I thought, My goodness, who is that? It was Morrissey. Wow, I thought, here's two weirdos together.

I said, 'Shall we get married?' and he said, 'Yes.' He was so strange, but that was his gimmick.

I actually found him to be a really nice guy.
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  • Funny, I never realized that she was famous for being a lottery (is that what "pools" is?). I assumed that she was an actress. Maybe I was thinking of Liv Ullman.

    What made her so popular? Her flamboyance?
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:56AM (#68390)
    • Re:I thought she was an actress by Sonny Jim (Score:1) Friday July 11 2003, @12:08PM
      • Re:I thought she was an actress by Gabriella (Score:1) Friday July 11 2003, @01:33PM
        • to all non Brits

          Viv Nicholson was/is a tabloid legend in the same way that (for better or for worse) Princess Diana and Myra Hindley were tabloid legends.
          She was a young, blonde, working class woman who won a large amount of money (equal to over £1 million today) and spent the lot in a few years. Her autobiography Spend, Spend, Spend is required reading and is one of the most laugh out loud funny and supremely entertaining things I have ever read.
          Remember Morrissey wrote the words "I never had a job because I never wanted one" - I'm sure the idea of a working class person coming into all that money for no reason (and then spending the lot) must have appealed to him enormously not only because Viv was a tabloid legend but because it made a mockery of the class system and the whole idea of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps/ have a good career/ better yourself by social climbing etc and the whole unashamed worship of money that went on in the 80s ...
          I love Viv, she just walked away from all that car wreck life still young, still pretty,still blonde.... just like me!
          Frances Farmer -- Friday July 11 2003, @06:17PM (#68460)
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        • Re:I thought she was an actress by SundownPlayboy (Score:1) Saturday July 12 2003, @04:00PM
    • Re:I thought she was an actress by streja (Score:1) Monday July 14 2003, @06:56AM
  • I've just finished reading the Simon Goddard book, and he makes an interesting judgment on the Morrissey-Viv Nicholson relationship. He says that Viv was disappointed that Morrissey didn't keep in touch with her after they met up that one time at the concert, and that she was "misled by Morrissey's shallow friendship." I thought that was interesting, just as a judgment on the way Morrissey handled his friendship with her. I suppose, looking back, it does seem a bit exploitative on Morrissey's part, yanking her out of obscurity yet again, and then throwing her back.
    Gabriella -- Friday July 11 2003, @03:20PM (#68439)
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    And me and my heart, we knew...we just knew...forevermore...
  • I used to see her working in a cheapy make up shop called Duty Free in Wakefield, as I have the misfortune to live there. Many was the time I'd go in clutching my 12-incher, desperate for her to sign it, but never daring to ask her...
    Anonymous -- Monday July 14 2003, @05:09AM (#68651)

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