SSML-45, 18 December 1996.

Hi everyone,

 I guess this will be the last SSML before Christmas, so Seasons Greetings to 
everyone.   Lets hope we have a big Shakespears Sister (and Marcy) New Year!

 Welcome to Neil Goward who has a fantastic SS site at 
http://egrorian.internetfci.com/~ngoward/

 Marcy's new single "Boy" was released in the UK on December 2nd, again on Triple 
AAA Records.   Does anyone know the tracklisting?

This was a review from NME recently I think:

MARCELLA DETROIT: Boy (AAA)
 "... She's frighteningly good, dammit, and this totally silly song about gender 
benderisation (complete with '80s-style daft Dalek voices) is as wonderfully 
unChristmassy as it gets, but it is unfortunately not the bollocks of any canine you'd 
look at twice." 
 The good news is it has charted, debuted at #102.  Unfortunately the Top 200 wasn't 
included in Dominator's chart this week, so we don't know what happened to it this 
week.  From memory this debut is slightly higher than the one for "I Hate You Now" 
earlier this year.

Dominator's UK Top 40 Chart Analysis (w/e December 14th 1996)
102 !NEW! 1 102 Marcella Detroit: Boy

 I'm not sure what sort of chart the following is (anyone know any Czech 
languages??!!), but "I Can Drive" is _currently_ at no. 88 in a Czech Republic (??) 
chart.  Details (in Czech though!) at:

http://www.capitol.cz/kultura/hudba/hitparada/1996/

It was at no. 79 for the week ending 29 September 1996, and seems to have been 
bubbling around the lower end of the Top 100 for the last few months.

 Mike.

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From: dgarbuio@direct.ca (denny garbuio)
Subject: Shakespears Sister Web Site


GREAT NEWS!!!

I logged onto the web site yesterday which says the new complete web site should be 
up in a few days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally!

Denny :)
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 Oops: that message on the official web site (address below) has been there for a while 
now..... It probably won't be updated until the album is out...

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From: dgarbuio@direct.ca (denny garbuio)
Subject: Get me all excited... :(

I though that was ground-breaking news! :(

Hilarious though...what is that tape interface at the bottom of the picture for? Weird. 
You see, I just started using the new version of Internet Explorer (which is great by 
the way) and that was the first time I noticed that scrolling. Days have become months 
I suppose
... SOB!! :(

Hey are STOCK AITKEN a team again? I love that song Santa Maria--I think it was 
written for Bananarama. The new Pet Shop Boys KICK ASS!

What do you think about the spice girls?

Denny :)

People! Let's try not to forget Monday Dec. 16 is Denny's 25th birthday. By the way, 
this is his conscience speaking, so don't think it's a hint to wish him well...

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 Cheers to Diana for noting the following:

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:28:00 -0800 (PST)
From: "Bruin, Diana de" 

Yesterday I accidentally came across the 'Never mind the Buzzcocks' quiz on BBC. I 
read in your mail that Marcy was supposed to show herself there sometime soon, so I 
waited till I saw all the contenders and decided that this wasn't the correct episode. 
But still I kept watching.... And it was only when the lady with the short peroxide 
blond hair started to speak that I realised it was Marcy !!! She looked so different... In 
her neck her hair wasn't as short as Annie's [from Eurythmics] was in the Touch 
period, but it wasn't much longer either. Her forehead was covered.   Diana de Bruin.
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 Welcome to the recent influx of new subscribers.  For your information, here is the 
list of known Shakespears Sister web sites:

http://www.shakespears-sister.com/
http://whig.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajg94/sha/spush.html
http://egrorian.internetfci.com/~ngoward/
http://w3.one.net/~voyager/ssal.html

And for Marcella Detroit as well:

http://www.marcelladetroit.com/
http://w3.one.net/~voyager/jewel.html

 Finally for now, some old reports from AlterSleaze regarding SS and Marcy.  
Remember that these are just tabloid reports, so make of them what you will.
They can be found at
http://alterworld.com/

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AlterSleaze: May 31, 1996

 SHAKESPEARS SISTER would never have stood the test of time as long as 
MARCELLA DETROIT was a member of the group, according to singer SIOBHAN 
FAHEY. The former BANANARAMA star and Detroit went their separate ways in 
1994 after a string of hit singles, including STAY and YOU'RE HISTORY. Now 
Fahey is back as Shakespears Sister with a new album - and reveals that she never 
sees Detroit. Fahey says, "She always lived in Los Angeles and I presume she's still 
there now. It's really hard for British and American people to understand each other. I 
felt that in our partnership." SHAKESPEARS SISTER singer SIOBHAN FAHEY is 
back with her ex-boyfriend - and husband DAVE STEWART approves. Fahey dated 
BOBBY BLUEBELL, former frontman with THE BLUEBELLS, more than a decade 
ago when they co-wrote the British number one single YOUNG AT HEART. Now 
the duo and ex-EURYTHMICS star Stewart are working together on songs for Fahey. 
She says, "Bobby is still a really old friend of mine. We've got a 100 per cent track 
record together. After all, Young At Heart was the only song we wrote and it was a 
number one when it was re-released. We started ringing each other up with 
congratulations. It brought us together." The pair also penned Shakespears Sister's 
current single I CAN DRIVE. FAHEY admits life will never be easy for her. Fahey, 
married to former EURYTHMICS star DAVE STEWART, explains, "What a struggle 
it has been for me as a woman to take control of my own life and my own creative 
destiny. I don't think I'm a freak in that. It's exactly where most women are today. At 
times I can be volatile. I'm a time bomb. I have a long gradual build up before I 
explode. My bomb probably goes off more often than I think." Fahey and Stewart 
have two children, SAM, five, and eight-year- old DJANGO. But their relationship is 
anything but normal. Fahey adds, "Dave didn't expect a normal person. Any 
relationship is like a battle. It's not true that our relationship is great, but we do our 
best to muddle on. Most families these days can't function because of the way society 
is crumbling."

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AlterSleaze: June 11, 1996 
 Former SHAKESPEARS SISTER star MARCELLA DETROIT has sent a cryptic 
message to her ex-partner SIOBHAN FAHEY pleading with her to end their war of 
words. Fahey, who hopes to return to the British charts next week with a new-look 
Shakespears Sister, has upset Detroit in interviews by saying she was little more than 
a hired hand. But Detroit insists her songwriting was a major factor in the duo, whose 
hits included STAY and YOU'RE HISTORY. And as Detroit plans her own solo 
comeback, she has sent Fahey a fax hoping to patch up their differences via her new 
record company TRIPLE A RECORDS. But, mysteriously, both her former partner's 
name and the duo's quirky moniker are spelt wrong in the letter. In Detroit's `peace' 
fax, Siobhan becomes "SIOBAN" while the group's name becomes 
"SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER." Triple A chairman JOHN CAMPBELL also writes, "It 
seems fair that we try to redress the balance and request Sioban (sic) ceases her 
irrelevant but sadly upsetting backbiting and bickering. Shakespeare's (sic) Sister was 
just one in a series of great moments in Marcella's career. Marcella wishes Sioban all 
the best and asks for peace and harmony to reign between them." Detroit insists her 
new single I HATE YOU NOW is not about her former partner. Fahey's 
spokeswoman REGINE MOYLETT says, "If all these so-called comments are so 
irrelevant why is this fax circulating? It's something made out of nothing. Siobhan has 
nothing to say about this at present."

AlterSleaze: June 13, 1996 
 Former BANANARAMA star SIOBHAN FAHEY says she has spent 38 years 
wrestling with her sanity. The SHAKESPEARS SISTER singer, who has a "perceived 
idyllic lifestyle", with husband former EURYTHMICS rocker DAVE STEWART 
asks "When do you know you're sane?" She is successful, rich and famous, has two 
lovely children and spectacular houses in London, France and Los Angeles and a 
husband who is one of the most respected men in pop music. But she is still negative. 
Fahey explains, "I don't walk around thinking, 'Haven't I done well ? I walk around 
thinking, 'God I am such a hopeless failure, I am a hopeless mother, a hopeless wife, I 
have to try harder.' I have a brain that functions in a self destructive way and I have 
had a few brushes with mental illness. " She has a litany of doctors, analysts, gurus 
and alternative therapists. But as she puts it, "I am just a pathetic case history." Fahey 
once said, "I am a mad witch from hell. I am sick of pretending I am not. This is what 
I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely 
off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason." Fahey has just released a new 
single called I CAN DRIVE and is looking forward to being on BBC TV chart show 
TOP OF THE POPS again. She puts her mental state on an inability to grow up. She 
explains, "I am still grappling with all the things that most people resolve by the time 
they are 35. It is not healthy, but it is a fact. So maybe that's why I still make music 
that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13." 

 AlterSleaze: June 20, 1996 
 Former SHAKESPEARS SISTER star MARCELLA DETROIT has launched a bitter 
attack on her ex-singing partner SIOBHAN FAHEY. The pair enjoyed a string of 
smash hits such as STAY and YOU'RE HISTORY with their trademark black eye 
make-up and pasty faces. But now it looks as though they could end up with real-life 
black eyes as they both make comeback bids as solo stars. Detroit, 39, is furious her 
old pal is claiming she wasn't involved in writing songs for their million-selling 
albums HORMONALLY YOURS and SACRED HEART. She fumes, "I have been 
following Siobhan around England and Scotland listening to things she has said about 
me, claiming that I wasn't involved in the music. Apparently I didn't even help write 
the tunes or anything. She is basically lying about me which makes me angry. 
Siobhan had animosity towards me because Stay was a big hit and I was singing most 
of it." Detroit, who also co-wrote ERIC CLAPTON's classic LAY DOWN SALLY, 
adds, "That's her problem. The fact that she can't get on with her life is just pathetic." 
She also denies her song HATE YOU NOW is about Fahey and says, "Siobhan and I 
haven't spoken to each other in four years. There is no way I would hold it inside then 
write about her after all that time. That would kill me. I don't even think about her. 
The song is about someone who didn't have any faith or trust in me."

AlterSleaze: June 26, 1996 
 SHAKESPEARS SISTER star SIOBHAN FAHEY stands guard over her son's 
record collection. The singer, who had a recent British hit with I CAN DRIVE, has 
banned her eight-year-old son SAM from listening to outrageous rap stars THE 
OUTHERE BROTHERS. Fahey, married to former EURYTHMICS star DAVE 
STEWART, adds, "I got him the OASIS album instead."

AlterSleaze: July 16, 1996 
 The ongoing feud between former SHAKESPEARS SISTER girls SIOBHAN 
FAHEY and MARCELLA DETROIT has taken another turn. Detroit has just released 
a solo single entitled I HATE YOU NOW, complete with a lavish statement accusing 
her former collaborator of "irrelevant but sadly upsetting back-biting and bickering" 
in recent interviews. However, Detroit wants to assure people her new single is not 
about Fahey, who is still working under the Shakespears Sister title. She wishes her 
"the best for the future" and advises Fahey "to do as Marcella is doing and look to the 
future, not to the past". But the statement is not being taken lightly by Fahey's 
representatives. A spokeswoman says, "We are maintaining a dignified silence on this 
whole sordid affair. We've seen a copy of Marcella's statement, and it just isn't true. 
It's very tacky for her to drag up that old story and try to make something out of 
nothing. The fact she's called the single I Hate You Now is absurd. We note, however, 
that the record went straight into the British charts at number 96." 
AlterSleaze: August 20, 1996

 SHAKESPEARS SISTER star SIOBHAN FAHEY is to swap her glittering pop 
career for the life of a junkie in a new film. Fahey is currently shooting CLEAN 
BREAK, in which she plays a recovering heroin addict, in Dublin, Ireland. As Fahey's 
character rehabilitates herself, her husband is still battling with his own inner demons. 
And while the singer claims the movie does not mirror her own marriage to former 
EURYTHMICS star DAVE STEWART, there are a few minor similarities. Fahey 
admits they have often found it difficult to live together in harmony over the years. 
She explains, "It's not easy at all. For years and years I didn't recognise there was a 
conflict in our household. We've got different viewpoints and Dave works on such a 
huge canvas. It's also difficult to live with someone who is so recognisable and so 
famous. It erodes your sense of self when you're being venerated first and foremost as 
his wife." 
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>From http://www.gti.co.uk/law/lawnews1607.html :
This Week's Legal News Updated: Friday 19th July

Queen Victoria sitting shot upon a rocking horse is not amused, and sues

Shakespears Sister's day in court approaches, with Siobhan Fahey and Marcella 
Detroit sued for damages over a 1920's poem by Dame Edith Sitwell.  Francis Tarjan 
Sachervell Sitwell, sole representative of a trust established by Dame Edith, is 
claiming legal ownership of Hornpipe, a poem written by Dame Edith in the 1920's. 
He claims Fahey & Detroit and their music companies infringed copyright by using 
eight lines of the poem in the song I don't care. It is the latest piece of music-related 
litigation due to reach court, with former Beatles fighting against an illicit recording 
from the Hamburg club in 1962, and Oasis vs. former drummer Anthony McCarroll 
due to reach the High Court in just over a year.

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