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

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

The King is dead! God save the Queen!

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” […]