A Perfect Circle: So Long, Marilyn

Marilyn by Bert Stern, 1962

Rock supergroup A Perfect Circle (featuring members of Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, and Marilyn Manson’s bassist) are releasing their first album in fourteen years this week.  One of their new tracks, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish‘ (after the whimsical title of a Douglas Adams novel), nods to deceased stars like David Bowie and the original MM with a mixture of nostalgia and cynicism (the Monroe reference may also be a nod to Elton John’s ‘Candle in the Wind.’)

“Ticker tape parade
Our hair and skin like
Like Marilyn Monroe
In an empty wind …”