And she’d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid…
UK viewers have most likely already seen this on TV, but for those of you that haven’t, you can view the new M&S TV advert, which utilises David Bowie’s 1983 world-wide smash, Let’s Dance,
The clutch of lovely ladies in the screen grabs above comprise, from left to right, Lily Cole, Twiggy Lawson, Noemie Lenoir, Mylene Klass and Erin O’Connor.
Of course, Bowie fans will be more familiar with Twiggy Lawson on the original RCA Pin-Ups insert as Twig The Wonderkid, as that’s her with David on that iconic cover.
Haven’t they both done well?
Footnote #1: Pedants, such as myself, may be distressed that Wonder Kid is two words in today’s lyric quotation, yet one word when I mention the Pin-Ups insert. Well, it’s because that’s how they appear on the lyric inner for Drive In Saturday and on the Pin-Ups insert respectively. Drive-In Saturday is on Aladdin Sane.
Footnote #2: Pedants, such as myself, may be distressed that in Footnote #1, above, Drive-In Saturday is not hyphenated in the first instance, but it is in the second. Well, that’s because it appears without the hyphen in the title on the lyric inner, but with a hyphen on the tracklisting on the back sleeve. The correct version is with a hyphen. This is an example of pedantry gone mad, as I’m pretty sure that the only reason it’s missing from the lyric inner title is because the Aladdin Sane font doesn’t support a hyphen…and I knew that all along.
Footnote #3: Pedants, such as myself, may be distressed that in Footnote #1 the album title Pin-Ups is two words, hyphenated. Whereas on the original RCA UK pressing, (surely the benchmark for all comparisons) it is arguably one word on the front cover and definitely one word on the spine: PINUPS. Well, that’s because on the label itself the title is the more correct Pin-Ups, hyphenated.
Footnote #4: Pedants, such as myself, need to get a life.