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Steve Strange?
Posted by gerry d on 13 July 2010 - 8:01pm.
Why is Steve Strange on the Subscribers Edition of August 2010 magazine and yet, and yet The Smiths are pitured in the key on page 73? Can't think of any superlatives to accompany Mr. Strange apart from biggest user of make up. Please explain...
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Good spot.
I also noted that the two pictures obscured by the "Who's Biggest?" yellow badge, are not the photos in the inside version of the page.
We need to be told!!
Presumably the space wasn't big enough for China Crisis?
I note the "Mind of A Toy" hitmaker is replaced by a bar code on the retail version by the looks of it. I suspect it was a wry in-joke for subscribers...I like to think it was.
Strange
The Mind Of A Toy hitmaker was substituted for the barcode on the subscriber's edition because Art Director Jonathan Sellers thought it was hilarious. I know!
The two acts concealed by the yellow circle are Thunderbirds theme tune composer Barry Gray and rubber-lipped rocking gargoyle Mick Jagger. He thought that was a rib-tickler too.
All the best.
I see.
Does he get out much, this Sellers fellow?
No
He doesn't.
"rubber-lipped rocking gargoyle Mick Jagger"...
It's a good thing I've finished my dinner otherwise I would have spat it out reading that!
Although ...
... a gargoyle technically has to be a water spout, channelling water away from the building it's part of ... a non-water-spout feature in the same vein is a grotesque, so perhaps "rubber-lipped rocking grotesque" would be more accurate? unless Mark Ellen meant that Sir Mick regularly vomits rainwater?
no, i don't get out much
I saw that episode...
... of QI, too!
Talk of Sir Mick always reminds me of the time he was interviewed by George Melly. When Mick was asked why his face was so lined he replied "They're laughter lines" to which Melly responded in a flash "Nothing's that funny, Mick."
I hope to God someone doesn't tell me it's an urban myth. I'd like to think it's all true.