“If you’ve got five seconds the spare, I’ll tell you the story of my life” – The Smiths ( Half A Person).
It turns out we’re going to need more than five seconds to learn about the life of Morrissey.
Reports abound that the bard of Manchester is at the trimming stage of his autobiography which is due to be published some time in 2012.
He says that the draft version is currently of epic door stop proportions, a whacking 600 pages which , even with some radical Carver-esque editing, means that when complete it will amount to much more than a slim volume of glib anecdotes.
The consensus these days is that Morrissey has become a boring old fart whose rent-a-mouth comments for the press have become more than a little tiresome. In this respect, the media shows its usual hypocrisy in inviting quotes about royalists, conservatives, carnivores or foreigners then feigning outrage (‘big mouth strikes again’) when he obliges with some ‘controversial’ sound bite. It may seem that when Morrissey opens his mouth to the press he puts his foot in it but he knows exactly what he is doing
Dishing the dirt on these critics who have (unsuccessfully) plotted his downfall will doubtless take up a fair amount of space in these memoirs, as he declared in his song ‘The more you ignore me the closer I get : “I bear more grudges than lonely high court judges”.
But apart from snipes and rants what else should we expect? Continue reading →
What is up with Morrissey?
