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"Return of the lone stranger" by Mark Simpson (The Guardian, May 31, 2003)

posted by davidt on Saturday May 31 2003, @11:00AM
First with the link is bryce:

Return of the lone stranger - The Guardian, May 31, 2003

Long without a record deal, all has not been as it should be with Morrissey. But a new documentary finds he's not so miserable now. Mark Simpson reports
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  • The scans are lovely!
    Anonymous -- Saturday May 31 2003, @02:47PM (#63352)
  • Oh come on David!!
    What do I have to do to be listed??
    Anyway - BBC1 3 Months' time.......

    Uncleskinny
    uncleskinny -- Saturday May 31 2003, @03:19PM (#63357)
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    And so I drank one, it became four, and when I fell on the floor, I drank more
  • the one time my dad doesn't get the guardian
    astol -- Saturday May 31 2003, @04:41PM (#63365)
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    there's more to life than books you know but not much more
  • you can read the article clearly at this address

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,965652,00.html
    astol -- Saturday May 31 2003, @04:44PM (#63366)
    (User #7611 Info)
    there's more to life than books you know but not much more
  • I have many (maybe too many) Morrissey articles over the years. However, "He was, simply, the funniest, saddest, smartest, loveliest, deadliest thing you'd ever heard or seen" goes some way to describing the initial impression of the man (and the band).....nice one!!
    Sheridan -- Saturday May 31 2003, @07:42PM (#63373)
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  • This is easily the best article about Morrissey I've ever read. I will be buying this book if I can ever find it.
    veradicere -- Saturday May 31 2003, @09:16PM (#63375)
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  • This article really took the time to articutlate the culture of Morrissey that I thought no one really understood. Great Effort in Description, and I thought the whole world woundn't listen.
    MasterOfWho -- Saturday May 31 2003, @11:53PM (#63379)
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    Is there room in your heart for a Tennant who carries a Rose? http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/
  • I met Mark Simpson last night. V nice fellow he was.
    David T (different) -- Sunday June 01 2003, @02:09AM (#63389)
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    david_t[at]boltblue.com
  • Great article, the best I've read in a long time o the man. Especially the part about heterosexual males being in love with him. I can relate to that. For once an article that doesn't stop at the usual cliché's(which I love reading too, by the way), but tried delve deeper and get really close to the art of (being?) Morrissey. Thanks.
    Spineless Swine <[email protected]> -- Sunday June 01 2003, @05:59AM (#63412)
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    Leave your future behind you.
  • Yeah, it was a nice little piece but didnt really say/tell anything new.

    Looking at Simpson's website, I don't hold out hope of his Saint Morrissey book being any good. If all he's done is listen to the songs then babble on about them then it'll be "nice" but worthless and reeks, already, of hagiography.

    It's also clear that, as a gay writer, Simpson's focus on Morrissey's sexuality is coloured. Saint Morrissey looks to be a gay man's recollection of listening to Morrissey songs? Hardly blockbuster material.

    Sorry Mark but we can all listen to the songs and read the lyrics ourselves. If you've nothing NEW to tell us or reveal then what, honestly, is the point? It'll be a nice book perhaps, but utterly redundant...
    Anonymous -- Sunday June 01 2003, @08:58AM (#63419)
  • I think Mark Simpson wrote an article in Uncut a few years ago about the state of Morrissey's career. I spoke to Mark Simpson, Moz and Linder Sterling after that article and it was very clear that the Moz was none too pleased with Mr. Simpson. To give Mark Simpson some credit, he did explain to me how the title of the article "The Paranoid World of a fallen (former?) idol" was not his doing and not to his liking either.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 03 2003, @01:14AM (#63599)

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