Fifteen Minutes Of Shame

Album: Blue Sky Science (2005)
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  • The song's title is an obvious pun on Andy Warhol's much quoted 15 minutes of fame remark; when Zimbabwean exiles Mann Friday appeared on the BBC TV Newsnight programme in May 2009, band member Ryan Koriya explained it was about the venality of the media, how a big story - perhaps a humanitarian disaster or an atrocity - will be given big but transient coverage, and then forgotten. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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