Fan from Plano, TX: "So is this the end of Love Spit Love? Are the Furs getting back together? By the way I loved the cover of "How Soon Is Now".
Richard Butler: "Thanks for the compliment!
"No plans to get Love Spit Love back together, and yes, the Furs are together." (USA Today 2001)
Richard Butler: "It was quite accidental how that came about. A guy – I forget his name – the music supervisor for a movie, and I'm not sure that wasn't called Charmed as well… [Interviewer mentions The Craft] The Craft! Yeah! And he came and said, 'Would you like to do a cover of The Smiths song?' And I said, 'Well, yeah, but…I love the song, but I'm not sure how much I can make it my own.' Because their version is so definitive, and they're so great on it. And without that… [Does an impression on the riff] …that weird sound, it's not much. So you have to do that. And then all you have to do is, basically, hope you can sound different enough from Morrissey while singing one of his melodies! (Laughs) But I loved doing it, and I love the version. And, quite accidentally, I guess they decided…was it Fox? No, Warner Brothers. They decided to do kind of a TV series more or less based around the movie, and they wanted that to be the theme tune. So it was just luck, really." (Bullz-Eye 2006)
Richard Butler: "It's strange that our version of 'How Soon Is Now' has become well known through Charmed." (Uncut 2020)
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