I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday by Morrissey

Album: Your Arsenal (1992)

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"I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" is part of Morrissey's Your Arsenal album, produced by ex-Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson. When Morrissey pointed out the resemblance of this song to the Thin White Duke's glam rock classic "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide," Ronson replied: "I wrote that original piece for Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, so there won't be any legal comeback."
Bowie covered this song on his 1993 Black Tie White Noise album. On the album's DVD, Bowie remarked: "I always thought of the English singer-songwriter, Morrissey, as a sort of a sexual Alan Bennett - the British playwright - because of his attention to detail. He'll take a small subject matter and make a very grandiose statement of it."

"His last album, Your Arsenal, was produced, ironically, by Mick Ronson," Bowie continued. "And Mick sent me a copy of the tape and I couldn't but notice that one of the songs on the album - 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' - was a kind of a parody of one of my earlier songs, 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.' And so I sort of thought it would be fun to take that song and do it the way I would've done it 1974ish."

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Cliff from LondonCan you please acknowledge Mark E. Nevin, main songwriter for Fairground Attraction, who actually wrote the tune for I Know It's Gonna Happen? No-one ever does, but it's actually his melody and chord changes that pastiche Bowie, as much as the rather slight lyrics.

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