ALMA MATTERS
Morrissey released
his album
MALADJUSTED in August 1997, the month ending with Princess Diana's
crash in the Alma underpass. ...
The advance single (July 1997) from MALADJUSTED was
Morrissey's final single before Diana's death and is
titled ALMA MATTERS. ...
Morrissey released his album MALADJUSTED in August
1997, the month that ended with Diana's fatal car crash in the Alma underpass.
The advance single (July 1997) from MALADJUSTED was Morrissey's final single
before Diana's death and is titled ALMA MATTERS. ...
With and without The Smiths, Morrissey released more than a hundred records
internationally before ALMA MATTERS. ...
ALMA MATTERS was the first Morrissey record ever released, with and without The
Smiths, that has a car on the cover. ...
One month after the release of ALMA
MATTERS,
Princess Diana
is killed in
a car
in the Alma
underpass. ...
The photograph on the
back cover of
ALMA MATTERS
has
a pillar in the center and three men.
...
In the Alma underpass, Princess Diana crashed into a pillar while accompanied by
three men:
her
boyfriend Dodi
Al
Fayed;
chauffeur
Henri Paul;
and
her
bodyguard Trevor Reese Jones.
...
On the front cover of ALMA MATTERS Morrissey leans on a
car. It is the first record ever released by Morrissey, with and without
The Smiths, that has a car on the cover.
On the back cover of ALMA
MATTERS, there are three men, and a pillar in the center. Diana was
with three men in the car that crashed
into a pillar in the Alma underpass. ...
On the
cover of ALMA MATTERS Morrissey is posed like Napoleon, the
most historic
emperor of France. ...
Princess Diana suffered her fatal crash in the Alma underpass located in Paris, the
capital city of France. ...
On the cover of
ALMA MATTERS Morrissey is leaning on a
car while posing like Napoleon, the most historic emperor of France.
ALMA MATTERS was released a month before Diana was killed in a car in the Alma
underpass in Paris, the capital city of France. ...
The official length of ALMA MATTERS printed on the record label is 4
minutes plus 47 seconds. ...
Count the first 4 months (January,
February, March, April) plus 47 days, and you land on June 16. ...
THE
QUEEN IS DEAD, the album that foreshadowed the death of Diana, was released on
June 16.
ALMA MATTERS is officially 4 minutes and 47 seconds
long. Count off the first 4 months plus 47 days and you land on June
16, the release date of THE QUEEN IS DEAD, the album that foreshadowed
the death of Princess Diana. ...
The single ALMA MATTERS was released in July 1997. ...
Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed began in July 1997. ...
There was public
bewilderment and disapproval over Diana dating the controversial Egyptian playboy
who would die by her side in the Alma tunnel. ...
Diana's
private reaction to the public disdain for Dodi was likely consistent with the
sentiment expressed in the only two verses of ALMA MATTERS. ...
So, the choice I have made
may seem strange to you
but who asked you
anyway?
it’s my life
to wreck
my own way
So, the life I have made
may seem wrong to you
but I’ve never been surer
it’s my life
to ruin
my own way
In his chorus to ALMA MATTERS, instead of using the expected
spelling of "in whole" Morrissey chose to use the alternate spelling, "in hole."
...
Alma matters in mind
body and soul
in
part and in hole
The alternate spelling, "in hole," is consistent with the downward
entrance to the Alma tunnel in which Diana, and Dodi Fayed, would be killed. ...
Diana's surprising
choice to date a controversial Egyptian playboy delivered her into the Alma
underpass where she suffered her fatal crash.
Consistent with the downward entrance to the Alma underpass
where Diana and Dodi will be killed, ALMA MATTERS ends with "in hole." ...
Princess Diana's fatal car crash in the Alma
underpass was the result of being pursued by the paparazzi. ...
The
paparazzi first began to trail Diana after her engagement to Princes Charles,
England's heir apparent. ...
ALMA MATTERS was released on the A-side of
a single where the B-side is a song titled HEIR APPARENT. ...
The B-side of ALMA MATTERS is
HEIR APPARENT. It was Diana's engagement to England's "Heir Apparent"
(Prince Charles)
that originally made her a target of the paparazzi who provoked her
crash in the Alma underpass.
THE
DIANA-MORRISSEY PHENOMENON