I initially misheard the lines as "I'm a hot retard!" "Marquis de Sade!"
Like an iD fashion spread turned to music
Only in the UK could such flimsy nonsense prosper and become Successful Pop
But Haysi Fantayzee had two fun hit singles - this one and "John Wayne Is Big Leggy" (is that a penile innuendo?)
And there's something about the brazen McLaren-copyism that is likeable. Fake-folk. Nostalgy de boo. Hip-to-be-square-dancing.
The lisping feebleness of Kate Garner's voice is sort of endearing
They are better than Wide Boy Awake, at any rate.
In my Rip It Up researching, did I listen all the way through Battle Hymns for Children Singing? I don't think so.
Kate Is Big Leggy, if anybody is round here. Certainly worked those gams at every opportunity,
Whereas pint-sized Jeremy Healey is a sort of Bolan-esque goblin crossed with Dickensian urchin.
The Artschool Dodger.
Apparently he went as Jeremiah Healey at one point.
Wait, there's more - two less successful singles
First is imitative of Duck Rock's Soweto stylings
And this one is more in the "Buffalo Gals" vein - at least until the flaccid chorus
Healey went on to be one of the superstar deejays, jetting to gigs and earning inordinate fortunes for a few hours spinning, especially at New Year's Eve.
Before that though he was a selecta on the supercool warehouse scene of the Eighties - The Dirtbox, right?
Kate went on to be a successful photographer
One more time for the really good single
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