Beauty Has Laid Siege to the City
Writer - Tennant/Lowe
First released - 2024
Original album - (none)
Producer - James Ford (?)
Subsequent albums - (none)
Other releases - bonus track with CD 1 of the "New London Boy"/"All the Young Dudes" double-A single
This previously unreleased song will be released as a bonus track on one of the CDs for the double-A single "New London Boy"/"All the Young Dudes," scheduled for release in November 2024.
The song's title originated with the late Victorian English illustrator and author Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), who, in his brief life, became a major figure in the aesthetic movement of which Oscar Wilde was also a part. His illustrations, usually in black and white, proved extremely influential in the burgeoning Art Nouveau style. Impressed by the highly artistic advertising posters he observed while visiting Paris in 1892, upon his return to London he submitted an article for the July 1894 issue of The New Review in which he predicted that "London will soon be resplendent with advertisements" of this type. He then added, "Beauty has laid siege to the city, and telegraph wires shall no longer be the sole joy of our aesthetic perceptions."
Nothing else is known about this song at this time.
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