10th song on the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD:
SOME GIRLS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS
This final song on
the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD
has only two verses.
The
first verse:
From the ice-age to the dole-age
there is but one concern
and I have just discovered:
some girls are bigger than others
some girls are bigger than others
some girls mothers are bigger than
other girls mothers
When speaking about celebrities, "bigger than" usually means "more popular"; "more beloved"; etc. Princess Diana - the most photographed woman in the world - was "bigger than" other girls. It can equally be said that the saintly Mother Teresa was "bigger than other girls mothers" in her role as Mother Superior to the nearly 4,000 girls in 123 countries who comprised the order of nuns known as the Missionaries of Charity, which she herself founded. In a striking twist of fate, the biggest girl and the biggest mother-of-girls became forever joined in our collective consciousness when the two died less than a week apart, first Princess Diana and then Mother Teresa. That sequential joining of the biggest girl and the biggest mother-of-girls was consistent with Morrissey's joining together of these two observations in corresponding order:
"some girls are bigger than others"
immediately followed by...
"some
girls mothers are bigger than
other girls mothers".
Morrissey's lyric declares that the thing he has just discovered - that "some girls are bigger than others" - is the number one concern in human history:
"From the ice-age to the dole-age,
there is but one concern
and I have just discovered:
some girls are bigger than others"
An estimated worldwide television audience of 2.5 billion viewers made the funeral of the "biggest" girl the most-watched single event in human history.
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The second verse:
As Anthony said to Cleopatra
as he opened a crate of ale:
some girls are bigger than others
some girls are bigger than others
some girls mothers are bigger than
other girls mothers.
Here, Morrissey's final verse on THE QUEEN IS DEAD identifies these two people:
1. Someone who "opened a crate of ale", ("Anthony").
2. Someone who was Egyptian, ("Cleopatra").
Correspondingly, Princess Diana's death involved the deaths of these two people:
1. Someone who had drank too much alcohol, (driver Henri Paul).
2. Someone who was Egyptian, (Mr. Dodi Fayed).
Henri
Paul
Dodi Fayed
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The history of events surrounding Diana's death includes the dubious allegation first printed in The London Times - and then repeated by worldwide media - charging that driver Henri Paul taunted the paparazzi by saying, "catch me if you can":
"The Times of London on Tuesday
cited unconfirmed reports that the driver [Henri Paul] had taunted the paparazzi
by saying,
"Catch me if you can", before
speeding away from the hotel with Diana, Fayed and a bodyguard."
Source: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/02/diana.driver/index.html
"Diana's
driver, Henri Paul, was legally drunk when he roared off for her final ride, and
said The London Times,
allegedly taunted photographers by saying "Catch
me if you can"."
Source: http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/diana/timeline/augsept97/2.html
Henri Paul on the night of
Diana's death.
Princess Diana and Mr. Dodi Fayed were killed in a Mercedes-Benz S280, a luxury car made in Germany. Their fatal car crash occurred only minutes after their driver of the German car reportedly taunted the paparazzi by saying,
"Catch me if you can".
This last song on the album titled THE QUEEN IS DEAD was released as a single exclusively in Germany. For the cover of this German single Morrissey chose a photo of actress Yootha Joyce from the making of a movie titled,
CATCH US IF YOU CAN.
Cover of the German
single, SOME GIRLS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS:
actress Yootha Joyce from the making of the film CATCH US IF YOU CAN.
Taking it one step further...
The photo on this German single is from the making of the movie CATCH US IF YOU
CAN. The movie CATCH US IF YOU CAN was also released under the
alternate title,
HAVING A WILD WEEKEND.
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were killed in a German car while caught up in a moment of "catch us if you can" with the paparazzi on a Saturday night in the midst of
"having a wild weekend".
The film CATCH US IF YOU CAN was also released as HAVING A
WILD WEEKEND.
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