SAINT MORRISSEY
MARK SIMPSON
FIRST EDITION -
HARDBACK ORIGINAL
ISBN: 0 946719
659�� Publication:
Oct/Nov 2003 (US Feb 2004)
224 pages. 129mm x 198mm
Price:
"All Saints should be presumed guilty
until proved innocent."
- George Orwell
"I was born in
- Morrissey
Twenty years after the release of the historic Smiths single �This
Charming Man� SAF publishing are pleased to announce the literary canonisation
of the legendary band�s former lead singer with the publication of Mark Simpson's Saint Morrissey
October/November 2003.
This happily coincides with Morrissey's return to the spotlight after
six years in musical limbo/purgatory. After some riotously successful
Nature may or may not have finally made a man of him, but posterity has
turned him into a legend in his own lunchtime: British music bible the NME
recently hailed Morrissey as the most influential pop artist ever.
From the jacket sleeve:
There is no other contemporary
artist who is so famously difficult, so apparently enigmatic, and so
passionately, religiously loved by his fans as Morrissey.
From the moment he assaulted the
public with a bunch of battered Gladioli in the early Eighties as the instantly
iconic frontman of The Smiths, and through a long-distance solo career that has
regularly and miraculously stolen defeat from the jaws of victory, England's
patron saint of despair has fascinated and baffled in equal measure.
However, as Mark Simpson argues
in his wickedly funny and deeply sacrilegious portrait, Morrissey isn't quite so enigmatic as he might at first appear. To understand this
most private and sexually ambivalent of stars and his seemingly erratic
behaviour, one needs only to do one thing. Listen to him. Like a villain who wants to be
caught, or a hero that wants to be feted, Morrissey has provided countless
clues to his personality in his peerless, startlingly candid song lyrics and in
innumerable hilarious and provocative interviews.
At once Devil's Advocate and
Counsel for Canonization, Mark Simpson offers the finest psychological profile to
date of England's most intelligent, most misunderstood, most charming and most
alarming pop star.
Order
Saint Morrissey from www.marksimpson.com at a special pre-pub discount and get your copy hot off the press -- before many bookshops
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