You can find a bit more context in the demo versions of this song, which included some extra lyrics.
"At the record company party, on their hands at last! a dead star. Double-pack with a photograph, extra track and a tacky badge. And they paint a vulgar picture of the way they say that you were but they can never really hurt you my darling, they can never touch you now".
And there was another verse that ultimately made way for the guitar solo.
"Anecdotes and stories / "Oh yes we were so close you know" / So why did the body lie for seven days / before someone passed his way?"
And here's what Morrissey said about it in 1988.
"No, it wasn't about Rough Trade at all. So I was a bit confused when Geoff Travis, the Rough Trade big boy, despised it and stamped on it. It was about the music industry in general, about practically anybody who's died and left behind that frenetic fanatical legacy which sends people scrambling. Billy Fury, Marc Bolan..."
You can find a bit more context in the demo versions of this song, which included some extra lyrics.
"At the record company party, on their hands at last! a dead star. Double-pack with a photograph, extra track and a tacky badge. And they paint a vulgar picture of the way they say that you were but they can never really hurt you my darling, they can never touch you now".
And there was another verse that ultimately made way for the guitar solo.
"Anecdotes and stories / "Oh yes we were so close you know" / So why did the body lie for seven days / before someone passed his way?"
And here's what Morrissey said about it in 1988.
"No, it wasn't about Rough Trade at all. So I was a bit confused when Geoff Travis, the Rough Trade big boy, despised it and stamped on it. It was about the music industry in general, about practically anybody who's died and left behind that frenetic fanatical legacy which sends people scrambling. Billy Fury, Marc Bolan..."