And I’d forgotten that Geri’s Union Jack dress (a tea towel stitched onto a Gucci dress) worn at the Brits in 1997, also had a CND symbol on the back. It was a different time.
Earlier that same night Simon Armitage jumped back a decade earlier when he chatted to one of the greatest musicians of the 1980s in the first episode of his new series,
The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed on Radio 4.
The guest in Armitage’s shed was Johnny Marr, Smiths guitarist, songwriter and all-round good egg.
It was possibly a symptom of the middle-aged men that they are now that the conversation began with the two of them talking about roads and the best routes to Yorkshire from Lancashire.