Dario Western
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Hey all, as we all know the Brits are suckers for novelty, charity or curio records over the festive season.
How many of you would think it to be a good idea for him to shack up with Rick Astley to do a reworking of "The Last Of The Famous International Playboys" to release in time for Christmas? After all, he used the pic of them hobnobbing on Top of the Pops in 1989 for the Major Minor re-issue back in 2014. I think it'd be fun.
Also, I don't think that Morrissey hated Stock/Aitken/Waterman's music. Their first number 1 record was with Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round" in 1985, and Morrissey praised it as being "A hallmark of British pop music, and it'll never, ever date!" He also apparently asked Rick "How is dear Sinitta?" when he first met him. Sinitta at the time had a string of pop hits like "So Macho" and a cover of the 1975 soul hit "Right Back Where We Started From" produced by S.A.W.
The only artist from their stable that I know of him to have attacked was Kylie Minogue some years ago, but she graciously took it on the chin.
In a pop quiz in Smash Hits magazine, Tony James from Sigue Sigue Sputnik incorrectly guessed Morrissey for the quote "Stock, Aitken and Waterman are polluting the minds of young people". It came not from him, but from Wendy James of Transvision Vamp who back then was almost as big a loose cannon as Morrissey with her less than charitable comments about several pop stars of the day.
How many of you would think it to be a good idea for him to shack up with Rick Astley to do a reworking of "The Last Of The Famous International Playboys" to release in time for Christmas? After all, he used the pic of them hobnobbing on Top of the Pops in 1989 for the Major Minor re-issue back in 2014. I think it'd be fun.
Also, I don't think that Morrissey hated Stock/Aitken/Waterman's music. Their first number 1 record was with Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round" in 1985, and Morrissey praised it as being "A hallmark of British pop music, and it'll never, ever date!" He also apparently asked Rick "How is dear Sinitta?" when he first met him. Sinitta at the time had a string of pop hits like "So Macho" and a cover of the 1975 soul hit "Right Back Where We Started From" produced by S.A.W.
The only artist from their stable that I know of him to have attacked was Kylie Minogue some years ago, but she graciously took it on the chin.
In a pop quiz in Smash Hits magazine, Tony James from Sigue Sigue Sputnik incorrectly guessed Morrissey for the quote "Stock, Aitken and Waterman are polluting the minds of young people". It came not from him, but from Wendy James of Transvision Vamp who back then was almost as big a loose cannon as Morrissey with her less than charitable comments about several pop stars of the day.