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FWD.
Their name is The Lads...!
Alain's tweet made it sound like Morrissey wanted the band to have an official name. It was my understanding that "The Lads" was just a name that fans called the band.
I am aware of the fact that the song was recorded in 1993. But it was scheduled for a release in 1994.
And Morrissey changed the lyrics when he sang the song live to fit the year 1982. In 1995 he sang "now it's 13 years on" and in 1997 "now it's 15 years on".
Granted, he made other changes, like "50 years" or even "100 years" that don't fit the year when they met, but I still think Billy Budd is about Johnny Marr.
"The good people laugh"
"Everyone's laughing"
"This one is different because it's us"
"And it's all because of us"
Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick, as I'm sure you know. If you're interested in other nautical comparisons from the mind of Moz, have a look at this from Autobio:
"As if jealously guarding a can of sardines, Billy Bunter and his playmates are rumbled and the Smiths battleship spring its first mutinous leak; with John Porter as sly Captain Bligh and Johnny as the always-innocent young cabin boy.."
Yeah, Billy Budd is probably about his cousin or something.
I know, sorry, I was just being awkward. I can't imagine "Morrissey & the...." working though, maybe he changed his mind.
The band they were all in before Morrissey was the Memphis Sinners, right? Morrissey and the Memphis Sinners would've been pretty cool.
Alain, Gary and Spencer were the Memphis Sinners, Boz wasn't part of it.The band they were all in before Morrissey was the Memphis Sinners, right? Morrissey and the Memphis Sinners would've been pretty cool.