Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: Lockwood Smith: "Part of Me Died With Michael" https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address George Darroch https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120965#post120965 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120965#post120965 Okay, forgive me. Being out of the country, and not being one to read the Stuff or NZ Herald websites frequently, I thought that David had made up the marriage.

Brilliant satire! I thought. Now I know that it is all true. All of it.

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:13:12 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120963#post120963 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120963#post120963

The best Lockjaw (no man can hold a smile THAT long) placard was the one when he was running around a Minister of Education and I am sure they were protesting the student loan scheme.

We had one which read "Orgasm? Correct!", which relates to his response on Its Academic…

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:01:46 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120954#post120954 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120954#post120954 Cheers for the kind words, people... [BLUSHES]

Another PAS book?

Yep, working at top speed on my next book (Bollard plays a big role). Out before Christmas, according to my cunning plan!

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:42:39 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120953#post120953 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120953#post120953

David, you could work your way around many of our people of influence, weaving webs of most believable whimsy

Rice pudding, bisexual women & robots was a dynamite combo, though maybe it only works with Peter Dunne.

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:17 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120949#post120949 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120949#post120949

everything he's achieved has been without the help of botox.

Frequent midwinter dips in those budgie-smugglers.

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:12:37 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120948#post120948 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120948#post120948 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:11:45 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120835#post120835 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120835#post120835

Sacha wrote:
I am looking forward to a story featuring both Lockwood and Bollard...
Now that is an interesting concept.

Yes please.

BTW it's nice to see Lockwood being cut a little slack. As far as we know everything he's achieved has been without the help of botox.

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:51:00 +1200 Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120829#post120829 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120829#post120829 Thanks for the snippets around the story, David. Your

I found inspiration in their evocative descriptions of his self-esteem...

tells me all I need(?) to know.

It certainly was one of the loveliest posts I have read on PA – I might even copy it so I can read it…

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:03:08 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120819#post120819 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120819#post120819 Stewart wrote:

Has Lockwood done anything specific to trigger this, or is it just a flight of your own whimsy?

I guess it was just, you know, the strange timing of Lockwood's wedding and Jackson's death. I really didn't mean to make fun of anyone's marriage or leave-taking, but one…

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:42:27 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120803#post120803 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120803#post120803 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:10:52 +1200 Colin Ross https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120789#post120789 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120789#post120789 Hmmm.. Inuendo ..
Something to do with Suppositorioes I think ?

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:38:24 +1200 Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120774#post120774 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120774#post120774 This had me in stitches (figuratively) on Sunday afternoon when I read it – magnificent, David.

Has Lockwood done anything specific to trigger this, or is it just a flight of your own whimsy? I don't know if he is as self-obsessed as this makes him sound, but it certainly…

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:36:51 +1200 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120740#post120740 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120740#post120740 remember only 140,000 odd people get to get into "Jehovah Witness heaven" – I've always wondered why they come door to door angling for more converts – if they were smart they'd keep quiet about it .....

Maybe it works that as better candidates arrive along those who are a…

]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:58:02 +1200 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120639#post120639 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120639#post120639 The best Lockjaw (no man can hold a smile THAT long) placard was the one when he was running around a Minister of Education and I am sure they were protesting the student loan scheme.

"Lockwoods Myth"

]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:04:10 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120635#post120635 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120635#post120635

fashion advisor to David Lee Roth

I had to roflmao about that line.

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:35:56 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120634#post120634 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120634#post120634 And now I'm here, I have to say this:

But he'd forgotten that I was a fashion advisor to David Lee Roth.

Did very weird things to my brain. It made pictures. Pictures I'm not sure I can live with.

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:33:35 +1200 Andy Milne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120633#post120633 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120633#post120633 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:27:45 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120631#post120631 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120631#post120631 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:10:14 +1200 Andy Milne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120630#post120630 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120630#post120630 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:07:25 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120627#post120627 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120627#post120627

I thought MJ got it all from Sir Howard Morrison?

Sadly, no. The side-splitting levity that leavened Sir Howard's shows back in the Quartet heyday – with considerable help from the late Gerry Merito – was sadly absent from Jacko's ouevre.

Not only were audiences treated to such gems as…

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:39:26 +1200 Just thinking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120623#post120623 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120623#post120623 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:04:27 +1200 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120616#post120616 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120616#post120616 this guy can sue Michael Jackson for plagiarism, which is akin to my successfully suing Beethoven, then your Friday fests of fancy are really not all that fantastic. ]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:27:49 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120614#post120614 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120614#post120614

I'd have thought that any contribution that Lockwood might have made to the wonderful heritage of pop would have been something to do with Cliff Richard.

That does sound strangely plausible...

Short version, "blame it on the Smudger".

Would that be Dave 'Smudger' Smith (formerly of Norwich F.C.)? Or the…

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:31:43 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120613#post120613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120613#post120613 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:18:18 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120611#post120611 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120611#post120611 Devil Woman, thanks to which it became a surprise monster hit… ]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:16:24 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120606#post120606 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120606#post120606

Very nice piece for a Friday afternoon.

Cheers, Andrew! We do our best to make those Friday afternoons pass as quickly as possible...

On a related note: a couple of bitter and twisted people have emailed to express scepticism about this interview — but I can reassure everyone as to…

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:58:20 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120605#post120605 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120605#post120605 The rhyme had been inspired by a trip to San Francisco in 1977. "It was pure autobiography," says Dr Smith. "The lyric ran: 'We spent the night in 'Frisco/In every type of disco.' To most people, it probably didn't seem like much, but I felt that it had the potential… ]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:55:29 +1200 Andrew Jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120603#post120603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120603#post120603 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:39:17 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120602#post120602 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-lockwood-smith-part-of-me-died/?p=120602#post120602 Discussion from blog post.

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