Whispers
“Ere, tsoooh, what! Missus, please, decorum, decorum.” No. Whispers hasn’t gone mad, that’s just the sound of Francis Howard, limbering up for his voice-over on the TV ad for Frankie’s album. The Up Pompeii man wants a trifling two grand to speak his part. “Perhaps we’ll use Roy Kinnear,” mutters Paul Morley meanly.
Maybe Francis can give the three hooligans some dressing-up tips, because it seems they aren’t so sartorially confident as slickers Paul and Holly. They’ll wear anything that’s put out for them by their dresser just as long as the poor girl also ties up their laces and adjusts their socks. No wonder she’s refused to accompany them on their American tour…