Talk:Gigolo (The Damned song)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 08:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

TRIVIA?
Not sure if it's important to the entry or not … but the song takes a few digs at Robyn Hitchcock, specifically his song "My Wife And My Dead Wife". ( Perhaps stemming from his association with, the then ex-Damned member , Captain Sensible. ) 75.104.174.177 (talk) 16:22, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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Yes I've noticed this too, for what it's worth - as well as directly quoting some lines from Hitchcock's "My Wife And My Dead Wife" the song "Gigolo" also includes the line "I know what you aren't, you aren't no Gigolo Aunt" which seems to be an oblique reference to the frequent comparisons between Hitchcock and Syd Barrett by critics over the years. I don't quite know why The Damned took such umbrage with Hitchcock (their only documented connection being that Hitchcock played on some of Captain Sensible's solo records and co-wrote a few songs with him during the 1980s). It would seem then that (apart from the specific reference to Roger Moore) the song is a veiled attack on Hitchcock rather than a tribute to Barrett. Hitchcock himself has apparently never mentioned the matter (indeed he may not even know about it) and as far as I know, neither have any members of The Damned. If the listener were unfamiliar with Hitchcock's work, this curious detail wouldn't be at all apparent. HippyGumbo (talk) 04:14, 10 November 2017 (UTC)