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Morrissey & Kevin Armstrong & Andrew Paresi
A reference to Morrissey’s love of 1960s kitchen sink drama. The song details the fall of a minor celebrity from a TV star in the 1960s to an unknown in the 1970s. With the title originating from the 1932 book, Kleiner Mann, was nun? (Little Man, What Now?) by Hans Fallada, based upon German social...
[Verse 1]
An afternoon nostalgia television show
You spoke in silhouette, but they couldn't name you
Although the panel were very polite to you
[Refrain]
Oh, but I remembered you
[Verse 2]
Friday nights, 1969
ATV, you murdered every line
Too old to be a child star, too young to take leads
Four seasons passed and they axed you
[Verse 3]
Nervously juvenile, won't smile, what became of you?
Did that swift eclipse torture you?
A star at eighteen, and then suddenly gone
Down to a few lines in the back page of a faded annual
[Refrain]
Oh but I remembered you
I remembered you
Little Man, What Now? was written by Stephen Street & Morrissey.
Little Man, What Now? was produced by Stephen Street.
Morrissey released Little Man, What Now? on Mon Mar 14 1988.