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    Morrissey’s Publicist (Michael Pagnotta): He Was IMPOSSIBLE! - The Quintana Show / YouTube (April 11, 2022)

    A friend of mine and her husband ran a small PR firm in the '90s, and Morrissey was one of their clients. They signed an NDA and have never spoken about him publicly, but they privately regaled me with tales of Morrissey showing up at a theatre, seeing the lines snaking around the block...
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    Morrissey Central "YOUR VACCINATION:" (October 27, 2021)

    https://www.spin.com/2014/08/morrissey-rambling-statement-fox-news-youtube-meat/
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    "Morrissey vs the Conformist Cult" By Anything Goes (Paul Joseph Watson)

    Yes: all those pathetic conformists with their vaccines, masks and sensible precautions against a contagious, constantly mutating airborne virus that has killed more than 4 million people and infected almost 186 million worldwide are a bunch of rubes obsessed with staying alive and bringing an...
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    Morrissey A-Z: "Now My Heart Is Full"

    Wry, soaring, exultant, poetic: equal parts joyous and heartbreaking. No one else could have written this song, and no one else could sing it.
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    Morrissey A-Z: "Nobody Loves Us"

    It's clever, tender, melodic, silly, sublime, silver-tongued masterpieces like this that keep me coming back. Bastard.
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    Morrissey A-Z: "My Love Life"

    The song is pleasant, but negligible. The video, however, is mesmerizing. The lads are so young, so relaxed - they just glow. But Morrissey: he's devastatingly handsome here. And that moment, at 1:57, when the lads apparently spot someone who recognizes them and they all smile and wave but...
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    Morrissey A-Z: "Maladjusted"

    Not just my favorite Morrissey song, but one of my favorite songs of all time. It's a masterpiece. The dark poetry of it, the complexity of the narration, the evocative feel of it; like a vivid dream, or a fading memory. It's a perfect combination of words and sound. I never tire of it.
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    Morrissey A-Z: "Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning"

    Dark, dreamy and twisted; it's what Morrissey does best. As others have said: no one can touch these gorgeous, whispered vocals.
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    Morrissey A-Z: "Life Is a Pigsty"

    I haven't listened to this in a dog's age. As a composition it doesn't quite come together, but I like what it's reaching for. Morrissey's lyrics were eerily on-target for something I was going through at the time, and that final lyric: "Even now, in the hour of my life I'm falling in love...
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    Morrissey A-Z: "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore"

    I've always admired Morrissey's willingness to embrace his role as music's most unreliable narrator. Does he mean it? Is he advocating for it? Is he condemning it? Is he singing about racism/violence/mental illness/sexual predation from his own viewpoint? From someone else's? He was the king of...
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    Morrissey A-Z: "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore"

    It's about rape, emotional abuse and gaslighting. One senses that, when Morrissey said "It's either this, or prison" he meant it. Fine vocals though.
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    The Simpsons - "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" (airing April 18, 2021) - reminder / reports

    I thought the writers and animators did a great job with their silly, affectionate pastiche of Smiths-era Morrissey (right down to the wardrobe choices). Sure, they missed the fact that Smiths-era Morrissey was a complex, often contradictory and deeply funny character, but this is a 22-minute...
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    Fiona Dodwell: "Ringleader in Reflection: A Look Back at Morrissey’s 2006 Album, Ringleader of The Tormentors" (March 31, 2021)

    I do still swoop by this site from time to time (if only to keep an eye on the drama). For me Morrissey has become something of a maddening riddle without any apparent answer. How? Why? The 2006 Palladium was unlike any other show I've seen. It was... majestic. Perhaps we bumped into each...
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    Fiona Dodwell: "Ringleader in Reflection: A Look Back at Morrissey’s 2006 Album, Ringleader of The Tormentors" (March 31, 2021)

    Agree completely. Morrissey was riding the crest of his third wave (and it was one hell of a good time). Vocally he was untouchable; as an icon he was fully self-possessed and magnetic. My favorite memory from the ROTT era came at one of the final gigs of the tour at the London Palladium. The...
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    More Sparks on Morrissey (new interview video)

    He was talking about how difficult it is to enjoy great music having learned something repellent about the artist who created it, and the difficult choice of cutting the artist out of one's life completely, or trying to filter out the politics while still enjoying the music ("filter" is exactly...
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