• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Donate
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Review is ‘littered with as many howlers as … Vivienne Westwood’s book’

October 27, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

tumblr_mjq0e2gL8q1s4tb5bo1_500

McLaren historian Paul Gorman writes:

According to Hoare – and these are his additions to the blunders already piled high by the 458-page tome – the shop assistants at 430 Kings Road in its incarnation as Sex included not only musician Midge Ure but also actress/performer Toyah Willcox. (…)

Against these howlers, we can generously attribute to memory failings Hoare’s depiction of shop manager Jordan’s “Kandinsky make-up” (it was avowedly based on the work of Mondrian and introduced in 1977 during the later Seditionaries phase) and the “scaffolding rails” in Sex (they were made of curved chrome and expertly-turned wooden gym bar racks courtesy of the trained wheelwright Vic Mead) …

As pointed out here last week, and as my lawyers have communicated to Westwood, Kelly and Picador, this is one of 40 passages in Vivienne Westwood which bear close resemblance to text in my book…

I think Hoare was confusing Toyah Wilcox with Jordan. (Pictured together above.)

 

More from my site

  • ‘If the media reported on Harper’s first day like they reported on Trudeau’s’‘If the media reported on Harper’s first day like they reported on Trudeau’s’
  • A rare interview with the great Rush LimbaughA rare interview with the great Rush Limbaugh
  • TIME admits: ‘Death panels’ ‘built into’ ObamacareTIME admits: ‘Death panels’ ‘built into’ Obamacare
  • The other trouble with newspapersThe other trouble with newspapers

Filed Under: Kathy Shaidle

« Charles Barkley: ‘Unintelligent’ Blacks ‘Brainwashed’ To Keep Successful Black Men Down’
My NEW Taki’s column about the attack on Parliament Hill »
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Archives

Copyright © 2021 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in