I love Prince, and he’s another person who was hugely complimentary about me, but I never should have done it. “That’s etched in fucking stone in my mind as probably my biggest mistake. “The two Prince songs – ‘ 1999’ and ‘U Got The Look’” The willingness to do it is there the difficulty is finding a block of time when neither of us is doing anything.”ĥ Which two cover versions appear on the 1999 reissue of your 1992 album ‘Machine and Soul’? He only lives down the road! We see each other and text a lot, but he’s busy with his film score work, and his work ethic is embarrassingly good compared to me. You’ve said previously that you were going to be writing with NIN frontman Trent Reznor. It’s a great honour to have someone of the calibre of Nine Inch Nails do one of your songs.” “I hadn’t thought that choice through ‘cause my nan, my granddad and my Auntie May – who was particularly upset about it! – were all shocked by the ‘ I wanna fuck you like an animal’ lyrics ( l aughs). Nine Inch Nails had done a version years before and I was interested to see what the difference was.”ĭid Nine Inch Nails covering the song mean a lot to you? Their song ‘ Closer’ was your first wedding dance with your wife Gemma in 1997… “Ah, I knew about Poppy covering ‘Metal’. If you made money, you rented the big caravan up on the hill!”ģ Which pop star covered your track ‘Metal’ in 2018? In my mind, I never lost that picture of the difference between rich and poor. All the normal people like us had little caravans down on the lower bit and all the rich people had the big caravans up on the hill. It was where I used to go with my parents when I was a kid. “That’s how limited my worldliness was ( l aughs). The quoted lyric is about the fact that when ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’ and ‘Cars’ both hit Number One in 1979, you celebrated by booking a holiday to a caravan park…
So I pretended to go the toilet and legged it up the street, got in my car and fucked off! He scared the shit out of me!”
He got offended because I wasn’t enthusing about his compliments and he got weird. But he would repeat the same comments again and again, and you run out of ways of saying, ‘Thanks Mark, that’s really lovely’ and end up going, ‘Alright mate, you’ve been saying this for half an hour!’. I was nervous because of his reputation and he was really complimentary and disarmed me. While recording Elastica’s second album, ‘The Menace’, in 1997, he wrote a tribute song about you called ‘ We Want You’. 1 Which frontman once sang an unreleased duet with Elastica’s Justine Frischmann about you, containing the lyrics: ‘ Instead of going to Montserrat, a la Simon Le Bon / I bought a caravan in Weymouth and nearly shot my mum’?
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