BOC: Heaven Forbid in the UK

Dan Lindfors lindfors at ALGONET.SE
Wed Apr 15 04:16:22 EDT 1998


At 08:43 1998-04-15 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>> I haven't had the opportunity to check this. But I actually think it's a
>> paraphrase of a Salvador Dali painting were his wife GALA (sic!) was
>> depicted as Virgin Mary - as in "Virgin Mary winks from the sky"!
>
>Damn Dan, ya beat me to it. Yes, I was going to say similar. Certainly the
>style is similar to Dali in his later period (about 1970 on) when practically
>all he painted was his 'wife' Gala in religious (christian) contexts.
>
>I don't think the actual painting itself is by Dali though, just a facsimile.
>

Yes, Gala did not really look like that. In this musical context perhaps
one might call it a cover...

DL


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