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[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Film and Television]] [[Category:Cover Star]] [[Category:Concert Backdrop]] [[File:68934524.jpg | 200px | right | thumb |Alain Delon]] ==Relevance== Alain Delon is featured on the cover of [[The Queen Is Dead]] and the still used is taken from his 1964 film [[L'insoumis]]. Also used as a backdrop on tour. <gallery> File:Alain delon queen.jpg | [https://filtermexico.com/2016/03/03/15-datos-que-no-sabias-de-the-queen-is-dead-de-the-smiths/ source] File:Qid tour 1986.jpg | [https://www.facebook.com/TheSmithsMuseum/posts/4196750300407147 source] </gallery> Alain also featured on a liner sleeve inside The Queen Is Dead vinyl records and CDs: <gallery> File:Hi 1986 thequeenisdead12 3.jpg|[http://web.archive.org/web/20130605103935if_/http://www.vulgarpicture.com/images/smiths/hi/1986/hi_1986_thequeenisdead12_3.jpg source] </gallery> In 2017, the "deluxe" vinyl box set of The Queen Is Dead (QIDLP 2017) featured several Alain images in various poses on the liners (a sample of said): <gallery> File:R-11023833-1508591045-4499.jpg File:R-11023833-1508591243-2290.jpg File:R-11023833-1508591393-5273.jpg </gallery> Alain pictured wearing a Queen Is Dead t-shirt in the French "TOP 50" magazine (No.48 - 02/02/1987): <gallery> File:Coupure-de-Presse-Clipping-1987-1-page-Alain.jpg </gallery> In [[Mention::Autobiography]], Morrissey states: <blockquote> "I am thrilled to receive a letter from the French actor Alain Delon approving his image for use on the sleeve of The Queen is Dead β this coming after a run of refusals from Alan Bates, Albert Finney and George Best." </blockquote>
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