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“I am back in the same studio some weeks later to watch a taping of Friends, having been invited to Reprise Records. Friends has become the most popular TV show in the world, showing life as it is commonly lived in America’s carefully preserved unreality. The cast is friendly, and I am immediately taken aside by the scriptwriters and asked if I’d jump in on a newly jumbled plot-line where I appear with the character Phoebe in the Central Perk diner, where I am requested to sing ‘in a really depressing voice.’ Within seconds of the proposal, I wind down the fire-escape like a serpent, and it’s goodbye to Hollywood yet again.”

 

Morrissey in ‘Autobiography.

 

Also…

On being disliked:
“Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’), I understood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.”

On the recording of final Smiths album, Strangeways, Here We Come:
“I begin the vocal for ‘Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before,’ when Stephen [Street, producer] stops me, even though he hasn’t heard this one before. ‘Er, Morrissey, I think there’s a grammatic error here — Who said I lied because I never …’ he aids, helpfully. ‘Yesssssssss,’ I hiss, like an adder on heat, ‘it’s meant to be there,’ and now I know how Joan of Arc felt.”

On an encounter with Siouxsie Sioux, with whom he’s fallen out with after recording a duet:
“On the doorstep [Siouxsie] asks me whether right or left would be the best direction to find a taxi, and although her best bet would be left, I suggest she turns right. It is churlish of me, but it is she who has set the pace.”

On a breakfast with friend David Bowie:
“David quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.'”

Join the club.

The 25 Most Morrissey-y Quotes in the Morrissey Autobiography (Oliver Lyttelton, Vulture)

Previously: Catholic Guilt By Page 5

Thanks Barry H

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Morrissey’s autobiography published on October 17.

From Penguin:

The book bears the Penguin Classics design of a black (on the outside because black is how he feels on the inside) cover, an accolade normally bestowed on literary landmarks rather then new titles.

 

Morrissey’s autobiography: design your own front cover (Guardian)

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The difficulty with giving a comment on Margaret Thatcher’s death to the British tabloids is that, no matter how calmly and measured you speak, the comment must be reported as an “outburst” or an “explosive attack” if your view is not pro-establishment.

If you reference “the Malvinas”, it will be switched to “the Falklands”, and your “Thatcher” will be softened to a “Maggie.” This is generally how things are structured in a non-democratic society. Thatcher’s name must be protected not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it, and therefore any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics.

Thatcher was not a strong or formidable leader. She simply did not give a shit about people, and this coarseness has been neatly transformed into bravery by the British press who are attempting to re-write history in order to protect patriotism. As a result, any opposing view is stifled or ridiculed, whereas we must all endure the obligatory praise for Thatcher from David Cameron without any suggestion from the BBC that his praise just might be an outburst of pro-Thatcher extremism  from someone whose praise might possibly protect his own current interests.

The fact that Thatcher ignited the British public into street-riots, violent demonstrations and a social disorder previously unseen in British history is completely ignored by David Cameron in 2013. In truth, of course, no British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Thatcher’s funeral on Wednesday will be heavily policed for fear that the British tax-payer will want to finally express their view of Thatcher. They are certain to be tear-gassed out of sight by the police.

United Kingdom? Syria? China? What’s the difference?

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Morrissey Releases New Statement on Margaret Thatcher (Yesterday’s Was From an Old Interview) (Pitchfork)

 

Johhny Marr plays The Acadamy, Dublin, tonight.

Morrisey, as you may know, is also in town.

*tremble*

Thanks Vinny