Emmersons_BrazillianDong
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Love the smiths. Agree he's a bellend
That was a bad one..Not sure you need to be too 'right on' to criticise a man who describes Chinese people as a 'sub-species'.
Well some singers are bigger than others...other than Liam Gallagher, David Bowie no other single artist sold as well as Morrissey in my record shop i had from 2015 - 2019 , any morrissey collection especially the 12" sold very quick and for decent prices ....
Was a highly original, funny and iconic lyricist, and a key part of one of the truly great bands. Sadly these days I'd cross the road to avoid him. A poisonous, vile, racist piece of gammon. If he could have seen back then what he's now become, he'd have torn himself a new one in a song.
The Smiths were one of the first of my own formative bands, and their work is still relevant nearly 40 years later, as much as I admired Morrissey as a lyricist at the time I'm appalled by what he's become and what he stands for, he's morphed into the very thing he mocked and railed against during his time in The Smiths, I also think the brilliance and genius of Marr's music, which allowed Morrissey the foundation to lyrically build on is much overlooked and his collaborative work has further enhanced my opinion that without Marr, Morrissey would have remained a peripheral cult figure in the story of Manchester music rather than being seen as central to the scene's development.
Morrissey would be a great subject for a biopic, his rise and fall, his political shift, his need to be controversial and in the limelight as a counterpoint to the quiet, bookish and shy persona he had always previously cultivated, his contradictory positions on so many things, like his own sexuality and his views on sexual violence, a complex character that has inspired so much devotion I wonder if he's ever truly at peace with himself or if he even recognises who he actually is anymore.
His great lyrics will be remembered long after the embittered man that wrote them and his dubious opinions are forgotten.