Steve morrissey
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Morrissey
(1959-)
Who Is Morrissey?
Morrissey gained fame in the 1980s as the co-founder and frontman of the Smiths, a British rock band. With his eccentric style and acid-tongued lyrics, he became an icon for disaffected youth. After the band's breakup in 1987, Morrissey embarked on a successful solo career, while also continuing to make waves with his many controversial comments.
Early Years
Stephen Patrick Morrissey, who is most commonly referred to by his last name, was born on May 22, 1959, in Manchester, England. The son of a hospital porter and a librarian, Morrissey was a moody, introspective child. He found an early love in poetry and writing, outlets that helped him cope with the occasional bouts of depression that gripped his life. Morrissey especially adored the work of Oscar Wilde.
For Morrissey, pop music provided a needed escape from his "dreary" childhood in Manchester. "Pop music was all I ever had, and it was completely entwined with the image of the pop star," he told The New York Times in 1991. "I remember feeling that the p
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Around fifty pages of _Autobiography _are spent on this, not much less than he writes about the entirety of the Smiths’ six-year career, and it is a section which combines several of the book’s worst faults—a need for retribution over all else, a pointless re-running of obscure long-past arguments, and a shocking indifference to the reader. For anyone who knows nothing about the case before picking up Autobiography, the information that explains what the case is actually about is only slowly and confusingly explained in piecemeal, as if Morrissey thinks that as long as the reader knows that he has been terribly, terribly wronged then any further details are more or less superfluous.
It’s not even that I disagree with the overall point he is making about the case—my legal sympathies are for the most part with him and Marr—but the endless, incoherent, enraged way he makes that point stretches every other kind of sympathy beyond repair. Eventually Morrissey starts going through specific parts of the evidence, legal letter by legal letter, offering his own tart and angry rejoinders
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Autobiography (Morrissey book)
2013 book
| Author | Morrissey |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Paul Spencer at Rebecca Valentine Agency |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Penguin Books(UK, Commonwealth and Europe), G. P. Putnam's Sons(US) |
Publication date | 17 October 2013 (UK, Commonwealth and Europe), 3 December 2013 (US) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (paperback) and e-book |
| Pages | 457 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-141-39481-7 (first edition) |
Autobiography is a book by the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published in October 2013.
It was published under the Penguin Classics imprint. It was a number one best-seller in the UK and received polarised reviews, with certain reviewers hailing it as brilliant writing and others decrying it as overwrought and self-indulgent.
Publication
Morrissey mentioned that he had begun work on his autobiography in a radio interview in 2002.[1] An extract from Autobiography titled "The Bleak Moor Lies" was published in 2009 as part of The Da
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