Oh, it’s a tricky one: the Mail on Sunday is giving away a copy of Prince’s entire new album. Prince’s entire new album. Free. Well, they say it’s free, but if ‘free’ means having to walk in to my local newsagent and saying; “I’d like a copy of the Mail on Sunday please, my good man.” I’m not sure whether that’s the sort of cost I’m prepared to pay. Obviously I can’t get my Sunday paper delivered - political correctness seems to have stopped paperboys from working - I blame the EU - and most of the people they have delivering papers nowadays are illegal immigrants anyway. And we all know the effect they have on house prices if they’re seen in the area. Not to mention that they killed Princess Diana. Probably.
Song playing as this was published:Silbermond: Verschwende Deine Zeit
One dreads to think what title the MoS (is that like a PoS?) will use to introduce the album. Do we know why yet TAFKATAFKAP chose that paper?
Is that true about paperboys? Is this in the UK or in Germany?
Plumpernickel: I’m not actually, really sure about the UK, but if I had managed to get a copy of the Mail (or Express) - that’s exactly the kind of headline they would have used….. My newsagent delivers my paper herself in her eco-friendly 4×4 and refers to it as The Guardian, because they only order one copy.
Anyhoo: Acronyms. So you’ve got Paper on Sunday, and a former artist (I gave up buying his stuff around about the time of (okay, afterwards, I got screwed, there), the symbol (ah, but is it?) album.
I’m looking through CDs to see what he could use: “The Morning Papers’ obviously, ‘Free’ - sounds fair enough. ‘Sexy M.F.’, ‘Insatiable’ and ‘Lady Cab Driver’ (should be at home, tending to the children, as her role in a stable family demands) all sounds MoS-friendly enough, but there must be something for MoS readers in there? There was the classic “Gett Off - pumping ‘em from Pakistan 2 Poland” but it’s very much a reflection of his early work.
So what is it? Answers on a postcard to the usual address….. Buggered if I know I didn’t even have the chance to buy the PoS, the only thing left at my local newsagents was Cheshire LIfe. And it’s NOT even in bloody Cheshire.
I think this is the bit where I admit to being too young to ever get Prince; I must have heard something of his, but have no idea what it sounds like.
So what’s been happening in Cheshire?
If you’re too young for Prince, I’m not even going to ask you about The Beatles…. But I believe they’re a Popular Beat Combo.
I don’t know what’s been happening in Cheshire. Past perusals of Cheshire Life would lead me to suggest that people have been building and renovating very expensive houses, riding horses, having charity dinner parties and been spotted in Harvey Nichols buying a Nicole Farhi outfit.