![]() 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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