MORRISSEY IN CONVERSATION: The Essential Interviews
As an interview subject, Steven Patrick Morrissey has made barbed observations about modern culture for more than three decades. As renowned for his elegantly waspish interviews as for his celebrated song lyrics, his wit and vitriol are finally brought together in a long overdue collection of interviews. Chronologically touching all the major points of his career, Morrissey in Conversation: The Essential Interviews comprises the most famous statements of Britain’s greatest and least likely rock'n'roll star.

The resurgence of Morrissey demonstrates how transient fashion can never truly eclipse a great maverick. All is contained within these pages: the groundbreaking days of the Smiths; the early solo triumphs; the hurtful ostracism by the music press that once lionized him; his return after years in the commercial wilderness. As much an archivist of British cultural life as a pop star, this collection preserves for posterity Morrissey’s love of literary figures like Oscar Wilde, his fetish for late '50s/early '60s icons, reflections on his (a)sexuality, his militant vegetarianism, and his sardonic salvos against mediocrity in all its forms.

Includes contributions from Neil McCormick, Simon Garfield, Biba Kopf, Max Bell, Dylan Jones, Mat Snow, Steven Daly, Stuart Maconie, Andrew Harrison, Will Self, Lynn Barber, Keith Cameron, Andrew Male and Paul Morley. All bear witness to this most singular talent, the modern pop song’s chronicler of loneliness, perversity and an English working-class sensibility, now lost.
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MORRISSEY IN CONVERSATION: The Essential Interviews
As an interview subject, Steven Patrick Morrissey has made barbed observations about modern culture for more than three decades. As renowned for his elegantly waspish interviews as for his celebrated song lyrics, his wit and vitriol are finally brought together in a long overdue collection of interviews. Chronologically touching all the major points of his career, Morrissey in Conversation: The Essential Interviews comprises the most famous statements of Britain’s greatest and least likely rock'n'roll star.

The resurgence of Morrissey demonstrates how transient fashion can never truly eclipse a great maverick. All is contained within these pages: the groundbreaking days of the Smiths; the early solo triumphs; the hurtful ostracism by the music press that once lionized him; his return after years in the commercial wilderness. As much an archivist of British cultural life as a pop star, this collection preserves for posterity Morrissey’s love of literary figures like Oscar Wilde, his fetish for late '50s/early '60s icons, reflections on his (a)sexuality, his militant vegetarianism, and his sardonic salvos against mediocrity in all its forms.

Includes contributions from Neil McCormick, Simon Garfield, Biba Kopf, Max Bell, Dylan Jones, Mat Snow, Steven Daly, Stuart Maconie, Andrew Harrison, Will Self, Lynn Barber, Keith Cameron, Andrew Male and Paul Morley. All bear witness to this most singular talent, the modern pop song’s chronicler of loneliness, perversity and an English working-class sensibility, now lost.
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MORRISSEY IN CONVERSATION: The Essential Interviews

MORRISSEY IN CONVERSATION: The Essential Interviews

MORRISSEY IN CONVERSATION: The Essential Interviews

MORRISSEY IN CONVERSATION: The Essential Interviews

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As an interview subject, Steven Patrick Morrissey has made barbed observations about modern culture for more than three decades. As renowned for his elegantly waspish interviews as for his celebrated song lyrics, his wit and vitriol are finally brought together in a long overdue collection of interviews. Chronologically touching all the major points of his career, Morrissey in Conversation: The Essential Interviews comprises the most famous statements of Britain’s greatest and least likely rock'n'roll star.

The resurgence of Morrissey demonstrates how transient fashion can never truly eclipse a great maverick. All is contained within these pages: the groundbreaking days of the Smiths; the early solo triumphs; the hurtful ostracism by the music press that once lionized him; his return after years in the commercial wilderness. As much an archivist of British cultural life as a pop star, this collection preserves for posterity Morrissey’s love of literary figures like Oscar Wilde, his fetish for late '50s/early '60s icons, reflections on his (a)sexuality, his militant vegetarianism, and his sardonic salvos against mediocrity in all its forms.

Includes contributions from Neil McCormick, Simon Garfield, Biba Kopf, Max Bell, Dylan Jones, Mat Snow, Steven Daly, Stuart Maconie, Andrew Harrison, Will Self, Lynn Barber, Keith Cameron, Andrew Male and Paul Morley. All bear witness to this most singular talent, the modern pop song’s chronicler of loneliness, perversity and an English working-class sensibility, now lost.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780859655408
Publisher: Plexus Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 01/26/2016
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Edited by Paul A. Woods, this book features contributions from numerous modern rock journalists.

Table of Contents

Morrissey Needs No Introduction Paul A. Woods 5

1 Morrissey Answers Twenty Questions 11

2 The Morrissey Collection Ian Birch 14

3 Handsome Devils Dave McCullough 16

4 The Smith Hunt! David Dorrell 21

5 All Men Have Secrets… Neil McCormick 27

6 Morrissey Elissa Van Poznack 34

7 A Suitable Case For Treatment Biba Kopf 44

8 Meat Is Murder! Tom Hibbert 52

9 This Charming Man Simon Garfield 56

10 Bigmouth Strikes Again Max Bell 62

11 The Boy in the Bubble Stuart Bailie 65

12 Mr Smith: All Mouth and Trousers? Dylan Jones 71

13 Wilde Child Paul Morley 79

14 Private Diary of a Middle-Aged Man Shaun Phillips 93

15 Playboy of the Western World Eleanor Levy 100

16 The Soft Touch Mat Snow 105

17 Lyrical King Steven Daly 113

18 Morrissey Comes Out! (For a Drink) Stuart Maconie 121

19 Ooh I Say! Adrian Deevoy 133

20 Hand in Glove Andrew Harrison 143

21 Do You F*@kin' Want Some? Stuart Maconie 151

22 The King of Bedsit Angst Grows Up Will Self 160

23 The Importance of Being Morrissey Jennifer Nine 166

24 The Man With the Thorn in His Side Lynn Barber 173

25 Who's the Daddy? Keith Cameron 179

26 Happy Now? Andrew Male 191

27 The Last Temptation of Morrissey Paul Morley 203

28 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Morrissey Peter Murphy 219

29 Big Mouth Strikes Again Simon Armitage 224

Contributors 230

Acknowledgements 235

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