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‘It’s really saying you’re not gorgeous at all’: how Babybird made You’re Gorgeous

‘In the 70s and 80s, you’d regularly see images of women in bikinis draped over car bonnets. I wanted to flip that – and see how a male photographer would feel if he had to lie over a car in a thong’

Years later, living in Manchester, I’d be at a petrol station at 2am and someone would shout: “It’s Gorgeous Man!” I couldn’t go to a bar without people coming up to me. Our single The F-Word was used as the theme tune to Gordon Ramsay’s TV show, and when we worked with Johnny Depp, who plays guitar and directed the video to Unloveable with Stephen Graham in it, I thought, “What a relief”, because it took it away from people asking about You’re Gorgeous. ‘I knew I had to get the band onside’ … the cover artwork.I’d read in NME about all these independent albums Stephen had recorded, and thought they were incredible: the mixture of his lyrics with these twee, knowing arrangements.

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