Hello, can somebody please help me with the transcription of the documentary “The importance of being Morrissey” (please!). I know somebody posted the transcription here many years ago, but some parts were missing or were not correct, and I would really like to have the full and correct transcription in English. I tried my best to decipher such parts and I managed to understand most of them but the following are the parts that I really couldn’t understand.
I know most people are really busy nowadays, but I'm also confident that there must be somebody kind enough out there to share their knowledge of English and help me, especially native speakers (or all those with a better ear than myself.) I would be very, very grateful if you could give me a hand with this. Please, please, don't leave me in the dark!!
Phrases or words I don’t understand in order of appearance (in square brackets and in bold):
(at the beginning of the documentary)
Self: His eccentricity lies in his [mercurial/peculiar] nature...
Burke: He's so [catered] for those of… lonely misfits who spend a lot of time in their bedrooms
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Morrissey: This is the Churchill suite. The things that you end up doing for television. [They aren’t normal, isn’t it?] I mean, how many people did he send to their deaths?... just to make up the numbers
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(Linder: Even before he's onstage, there's this amazing sorta'… you hear this football chant “Morrissey, Morrissey” the football chants start).
Morrissey: I smell assassination... [then comes an unintelligible comment].
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(when meeting a fan in Australia)
Morrissey: I’m glad one person realizes that. Thank you for waiting all this time... [then comes an unintelligible comment].
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(when talking about his presence onstage, after the meeting with the fan in Autralia)
Sawyer: He has a sense of stage [in that he’ll arrive], you know. He doesn't just slink on
Burke: It's always the quiet ones, isn’t it? Oh yeah [Whatcha' go there?] Well… he's a right dirty bastard.
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(when presenting his home in LA)
Morrissey: Please... squeeze your bodies in. So welcome to my lowly shack. This is where I live. This! Choreography is [unintelligible word], don’t forget that.
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(when talking about his first tour in the States)
Linder: I think people now seeing concert footage or [news footage] would be shocked. It was absolute pandemonium.
Morrissey: That was such a fantastic pinnacle... and I wasn't being a [whore] about it. I wasn't pushing myself forward, it just seemed to happen, very naturally.
O'Brien: If you spend any time with Morrissey, one of the things that you find yourself doing more than anything is sitting around, [put the tea on], dissecting and annihilating people's character.
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(when going to the barber’s)
cuts to hair cut: shakes hand with barber
Barber: [barber says something unintelligible].
Morrissey: nice to meet you.
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(talking about his sexuality)
Off-camera Interviewer: One thing you never [talked about] was your sexuality...
Morrissey: And I'm not going to!
Linder: Morrissey's sexuality was so picked over by the press in the early days. [unintelligible comment] stop, [unintelligible comment] to think is boring more than anything else.
Sawyer: It's almost like [a more regal] not to let anybody know, isn’t it?, really.
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(at the end of the documentary, when referring to the fact that he has no record deal)
Gallagher: The music business has changed... [then comes an unintelligible comment]. It's like it's full of f***in' wankers, a'ight.
Self: I find the fact that he hasn't got a record deal at the moment enormously [seductive].
Burke: You don't know this person, but you feel like there's a bit of a soul mate... wandering around. He's actually given you great pleasure... [then comes an unintelligible comment].
Gallagher: He's f***in' revered, man. His records will be listened to for, you know, until… George Bush blows the planet up, [I would thought].
I know most people are really busy nowadays, but I'm also confident that there must be somebody kind enough out there to share their knowledge of English and help me, especially native speakers (or all those with a better ear than myself.) I would be very, very grateful if you could give me a hand with this. Please, please, don't leave me in the dark!!
Phrases or words I don’t understand in order of appearance (in square brackets and in bold):
(at the beginning of the documentary)
Self: His eccentricity lies in his [mercurial/peculiar] nature...
Burke: He's so [catered] for those of… lonely misfits who spend a lot of time in their bedrooms
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Morrissey: This is the Churchill suite. The things that you end up doing for television. [They aren’t normal, isn’t it?] I mean, how many people did he send to their deaths?... just to make up the numbers
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(Linder: Even before he's onstage, there's this amazing sorta'… you hear this football chant “Morrissey, Morrissey” the football chants start).
Morrissey: I smell assassination... [then comes an unintelligible comment].
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(when meeting a fan in Australia)
Morrissey: I’m glad one person realizes that. Thank you for waiting all this time... [then comes an unintelligible comment].
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(when talking about his presence onstage, after the meeting with the fan in Autralia)
Sawyer: He has a sense of stage [in that he’ll arrive], you know. He doesn't just slink on
Burke: It's always the quiet ones, isn’t it? Oh yeah [Whatcha' go there?] Well… he's a right dirty bastard.
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(when presenting his home in LA)
Morrissey: Please... squeeze your bodies in. So welcome to my lowly shack. This is where I live. This! Choreography is [unintelligible word], don’t forget that.
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(when talking about his first tour in the States)
Linder: I think people now seeing concert footage or [news footage] would be shocked. It was absolute pandemonium.
Morrissey: That was such a fantastic pinnacle... and I wasn't being a [whore] about it. I wasn't pushing myself forward, it just seemed to happen, very naturally.
O'Brien: If you spend any time with Morrissey, one of the things that you find yourself doing more than anything is sitting around, [put the tea on], dissecting and annihilating people's character.
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(when going to the barber’s)
cuts to hair cut: shakes hand with barber
Barber: [barber says something unintelligible].
Morrissey: nice to meet you.
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(talking about his sexuality)
Off-camera Interviewer: One thing you never [talked about] was your sexuality...
Morrissey: And I'm not going to!
Linder: Morrissey's sexuality was so picked over by the press in the early days. [unintelligible comment] stop, [unintelligible comment] to think is boring more than anything else.
Sawyer: It's almost like [a more regal] not to let anybody know, isn’t it?, really.
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(at the end of the documentary, when referring to the fact that he has no record deal)
Gallagher: The music business has changed... [then comes an unintelligible comment]. It's like it's full of f***in' wankers, a'ight.
Self: I find the fact that he hasn't got a record deal at the moment enormously [seductive].
Burke: You don't know this person, but you feel like there's a bit of a soul mate... wandering around. He's actually given you great pleasure... [then comes an unintelligible comment].
Gallagher: He's f***in' revered, man. His records will be listened to for, you know, until… George Bush blows the planet up, [I would thought].
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