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Morrissey’s ‘Autobiography’: 10 Things We Learned About Moz
Published in the United Kingdom late last week, “Autobiography” is Morrissey’s long-awaited life story, written in his own inimitable style, and dishing the dirt on everything from the break-up of seminal British band The Smiths (“it happened as quickly and as unemotionally as this sentence took to describe it”) to his personal love life. Here are 10 key takeaways from Moz’s new tome.
1. Johnny Marr (Largely) Escapes Morrissey’s Wrath.
“It is a matter of finding yourself in possession of the one vital facet that the other lacks but needs,” writes Morrissey of his onetime Smiths bandmate and songwriting partner, who escapes relatively unscathed from Morrissey’s otherwise vengeful tongue. “In 1982, Johnny appears at Kings Road immaculately be-quiffed and almost carried away by his own zest to make meaningful music,” recalls the singer about their life-changing introduction at Morrissey’s parent’s house. He later
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Morrissey opens up in autobiography
The group, one of the most revered bands in British music, split up in 1987 after five years together.
The presiding judge, John Weeks, came in for particularly scathing criticism, portrayed caustically in the book as an "unsmiling Lord of the Hunt, with an immutable understanding of the world of The Smiths".
"The pride of the pipsqueakery, John Weeks begins his judgment by falling flat on his face: He brilliantly announces to the world how The Smiths formed in 1992 - his judicial accuracy not to be questioned!" Morrissey wrote.
Geoff Travis, who signed The Smiths to Rough Trade, was another who failed to impress Morrissey.
When the singer and guitarist Johnny Marr turned up for an appointment, Morrissey claims he waved them away and refused to listen to their music until Marr "pinned him to the swivel chair".
Travis, Morrissey drily noted, "would have found himself wandering from kaftan to kaftan" if it had not been for The Smiths, who the singer claimed "saved his life and made it count in th
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Morrissey Opens Up About His Personal Life in Autobiography
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey opens up about his personal life in his new autobiography, revealing that he had a serious relationship with a man in his mid-30s, and at one point considered having a baby with a woman.
The notoriously private artist says in the book that he struck up a relationship with a man named Jake Walters in 1994 after meeting in a restaurant. “For the first time in my life the eternal ‘I’ becomes ‘we’, as, finally, I can get on with someone,” he writes.
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“Jake and I neither sought nor needed company other than our own for the whirlwind stretch to come,” he writes. “Indulgently Jake and I test how far each of us can go before ‘being dwelt in’ causes cries of intolerable struggle, but our closeness transcends such visitations.”
According to the BBC’s Col
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