The King is dead! God save the Queen!

With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.

The singer had continually been occupied, to distraction, with making anticelebrity and antifame statements. He spent a good portion of the late 1980s and early 1990s dismissing his fame as an “illusion” […]

And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way, / Or sleep-dissembling, while he waits his prey.