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

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <010c01c6042a$de337690$5d8490d4@joeslaptop>, Joe Thornton 
<joe.thornton@gmx.net> writes
> Keith, is Paul Morley one of the more acceptable journalists in your 
> book?

I don't know, this is the first thing I've read by him for years. I 
can't stand U2 and I read it all, so...

When I used to read the NME, I thought he 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?

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?


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