The King Of Luxembourg

Of all the many aliases adopted by Simon Fisher-Turner, few have proved as endearing as the foppishly aristocratic King of Luxembourg. The character was one of many devised by the él label's eccentric svengali Mike Alway as part of his mission to create a kind of sunshine fantasy pop whose creators would be forever swathed in mystery and intrigue. As with all of Alway's inventions, however, the character was inspired by the real-life personality of the person playing it. Fisher-Turner had been a teenybop idol and he was a well-spoken middle-class chap from something of an exo...