The Psychedelic Furs‘ frontman has revealed that John Hughes “got the wrong end of the stick” about his band’s 1981 single, which inspired a 1986 rom-com of the same name.Richard Butler said that the US filmmaker took the meaning literally, and centred his Molly Ringwald-starring “brat pack” film Pretty In Pink on a beautiful girl in a pink dress.
But Butler was using a metaphor for describing a naked, wayward girl.“God rest his soul,” Butler told Sky News, ‘[Hughes] kind of got the wrong end of the stick with that song.“He made it to be literally about a girl that was wearing a pink dress and it wasn’t about that at all.
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