| Lou Reed – She's My Best Friend Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[bowiereedthing:18998] The song was probably written and originally recorded by the Velvets in 1969, so it's probably about Shelly Albin, who also inspired "Pale Blue Eyes" which was written at the same time (and the fact that you are married/only means that you're my best friend). The Velvets' version, on the posthumously released VU collection, reminds me of, or seems to anticipate, Bowie's Star on Ziggy. Doug Yule sings the lead vocals. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Memo From Turner Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yes, Bob-inspired symbolism is definitely an influence here, as it was in Lennon's "I am the Walrus" and especially "Happiness is a Warm Gun". | |
| The Rolling Stones – Memo From Turner Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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1968 was MJs Annus Mirabulus. You've made more sense of Memo From T than I did! I always associated the gay references with Orton's diaries, though they were not published until the mid seventies. "Sympathy" with it's reference to Thugee, was written at the same time. Spanish gentleman: In the Middle Ages, Edward Longshanks (I think) evicted the Jews from England. While Judaism was still proscribed (the ban wasn't lifted until Cromwell's Commonwealth in the 1650s) in the Elizabethan period Spanish and Dutch Jews, displaced by the Inquisition, (the Marranos) were allowed to covertly settle in England, where they formed an invaluable fifth column to inform English privateers about Spanish gold argosies, and ultimately about the Armada. Of course this song was written on the heals of the murder/suicide of Joe Orton by his spurned lover Kenneth Halliwell. Orton, like Reggie Kray, was a switch-hitting practitioner of male-intensive "rough trade" "muscular homosexuality". The Kray's of course, were the models for the notorious Piranha Brothers: 'sooch a loverly boy! 'e nailed me 'ead to the wall but then I transgressed the unwritten law I did!" DIMSDALE! |
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