Re: (TV) "Television", and other name-dropping

["Joe Thornton" <joe.thornton@gmx.net>]

Keith wrote:

> When I used to read the NME, I thought he [Paul Morley] was a pretentious 
> prat. But that was a long time ago. His interviews always seemed to be 
> about him more than whoever he was talking to. Remember when he "invented" 
> Frankie Goes To Hollywood? The t-shirts, the slogans, the liner notes?

I lost interest in NME when they panned Adventure, so I don't remember 
Morley well.

> The bit where he writes: "When I interviewed him in 1980, to call up some 
> of the old style NME arrogance and narcissism, a journalist from the 
> London music papers would have been about the most famous person Bono had 
> met" - I'm sure he believed it then and believes it now.
>
> What do you think?

It's nice to see the bit of self-awareness, and he writes rather well now, I 
think.

--JoeT




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