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  Morrissey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An early advocate of punk, the young Morrissey formed the UK branch of the New York Dolls fan club, and was one of forty-two audience members attendant at the infamous Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1976.
Morrissey is often noted as one of the key pop lyricists of his generation, with many subsequent bands hailing his influence.
Morrissey vacated his English home for Los Angeles in the late-1990s and found an entirely new life in the American West where, to the interest of many, he has connected with the Hispanic community, where there is now a big fan base.
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 Morrissey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steven Patrick Morrissey, (born May 22, 1959, Manchester, England), who has since dropped his forenames to become Morrissey, was the lead singer of The Smiths.
Morrissey's work, both solo and with the Smiths, has long held a special place within England's artistic community as well as, separately, the gay community in general.
Morrissey vacated his English home for Los Angeles in the late-1990s and found an entirely new life in the American West.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/m/mo/morrissey.html   (688 words)

  
 Morrissey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steven Patrick Morrissey, (born May 22, 1959 in Manchester in England) dropped his forenames to become Morrissey, the lead singer of the seminal UK 'indie' band, The Smiths.
Morrissey's songs of alienation and isolation have appeared to translate lock, stock and barrel from the streets of Manchester to the barrios of LA, something that he himself has expressed surprise and gratitude about.
Morrissey apparently is involved in a long-standing feud with The Cure lead singer/guitarist Robert Smith.
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Steven_Morrissey   (1995 words)

  
 Kweevak.com Rock Report: Morrissey Puts The "M" In Multimedia! (CD & DVD Review)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steven Patrick Morrissey was a writer and lead vocalist for the pivotal band the Smiths.
Morrissey is adored by his fans and some were thrilled to grab at his sweaty shirts thrown out to the crowd towards the end of the shows.
Morrissey is still penning controversial songs such as the scathing ‘I Have Forgiven Jesus’ blaming God for “all the desire he placed in me, when there’s nothing I can do with this desire”.
www.kweevak.com /rd_art_2005_05_10_morrissey.htm   (859 words)

  
 Morrissey Biography
The ex-lead singer and lyricist of The Smiths (1982-87), Morrissey is condemned to have his solo work held up to the fabric of that band's opus and to the deceitful perspective of Time itself.
Morrissey himself has stated that Rogan's book is "seventy percent" fictive creation and has ceaselessly lamented his record with interviewers who cannot seem to get his verbiage right.
As a solo-artist, Morrissey continued his maturation as a lyricist, becoming, by his fifth record Vauxhall and I (1994), a writer/poet of Mallarme-an complexity and calibre.
www.geocities.com /costelt/smithsmoz/Mozbio.htm   (967 words)

  
 The Smiths / Morrissey FAQ: Trivia
Morrissey was spoofed on an episode of "Bill Nye - The Science Guy" that was devoted to the topic of momentum.
Morrissey was born Steven Patrick Morrissey on May 22nd 1959 at Park Hospital in Davyhulme, England (now called Trafford General Hospital).
Morrissey was the president of their fan club in the 70s at the age of 18.
www.oz.net /~moz/faq/faqtrivi.htm   (1215 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts Friday Review | 'Somebody has to be me'
Morrissey loves his new album, his comeback show sold out in hours and he's been given London's Meltdown festival to curate.
Their record sleeves celebrated icons from Alain Delon to Yootha Joyce, and many of Morrissey's lyrics were rooted in the past, whether his wretched schooldays at St Marys Secondary Modern or the Moors Murders that cast a pall over the Manchester of his childhood.
Morrissey's attitude to relationships is not entirely slash and burn - he has been friends with performance artist Linder Sterling since 1976 and retained guitarists/co-writers Alain Whyte and Boz Boorer for over a decade - but the picture he paints of life in Los Angeles is one of splendid isolation.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1188235,00.html   (2655 words)

  
 Interview Archive - Homme Alone 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Morrissey became the boys' pinup: a man boys could love, not with lust, but as a personification of their own loneliness.
Morrissey was born almost thirty-five years ago in Davyhulme, Manchester, the son of two Irish immigrants who brought up Steven and his older sister Jackie with a strong sense of Catholic propriety.
Morrissey spend the night standing on his bed terrified at all the cockroaches fidgeting around the floor.
arcaneoldwardrobe.com /moz/interviews/1994/homme.htm   (4012 words)

  
 Morrissey
Steven Morrissey was born in Manchester on 22nd May, 1959.
Steven dropped his first name, now just shortened to Morrissey, to forget the old "clumsy and shy" Steven - clamed his celibacy and stood up for vegetarianism.
Morrissey's lyrics usually dealt with things on the morbid side of life, with the occasional hint of humour thrown in.
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 Geoffrey T. Chew's Tribute to Morrissey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For those of you who have never heard of Morrissey, he is a singer who first became famous as lead singer for the group "The Smiths".
Morrissey later went on to a marvelous solo career, and to this day continues to produce outstanding records.
I was first introduced to the music of Morrissey on October 31, 1992 when several of my friends asked me to go with them to his concert at the Del Mar fairgrounds in San Diego County.
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 Steven Patrick Morrissey...charmed by men?
Morrissey is merely an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a gold-lam
They were pretty terrified and Morrissey asked me in a whisper if I could cross the road to get him a can of hairspray.
Morrissey struck up a particularly intense friendship with Michael Stipe, another icon of unconfirmed sexuality, which led to wild industry rumour.
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 The Smiths / Morrissey FAQ: A Smiths/Morrissey History
Morrissey, having imagined himself as a rock star all his life was quite prepared to actually act like one, at least for the sake of interviews.
Morrissey himself has said that it was in making this song that he realized he could continue, on his own.
Morrissey's song "The National Front Disco" from "Your Arsenal" was widely interpreted as a pro-nationalist song by the press, and when he performed it on stage at a festival in England wrapped in the English flag, the fans threw bottles at him and forced him off stage.
www.compsoc.man.ac.uk /~moz/faq/histbio.htm   (2512 words)

  
 Morrissey: You Are the Quarry: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Morrissey humorously mocks Americans with, "You wonder why in Estonia they say, 'Hey, you, big fat pig, you fat pig,'" we laugh because most Americans don't know what Estonia is, let alone where it lies on the Baltic; fat Americans travel to Tucson not Talinn.
Morrissey's tommy gun is pointed directly at the pop stars who take their passing charge with less zeal and erudition than himself.
Morrissey's nature inherently emboldens those looking to make a statement, and now that he's on the mark, I similarly feel the need to stick out my neck for his record.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/m/morrissey/you-are-the-quarry.shtml   (1129 words)

  
 Morrissey - Bio
Despite his hate for school, Steven developed a keen passion for sport (his father had been an enviable soccer player; Steven, on the other had, preferred long-distance running) and, especially, writing.
Steven Morrissey's closest associates at this time were the guitarist Billy Duffy (a future member of The Cult) and Linda Mulvey (singer of the punk-jazz group Ludus).
It would be almost five years until Steven Patrick Morrissey received an unexpected visit from Johnny Maher and formed The Smiths.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Rainy-day voice of a generation
Morrissey, the former Smiths singer who has enjoyed a chequered solo career since the late 1980s, releases his latest album, You are the Quarry, on Monday, after a seven year silence.
Morrissey was a charismatic frontman in The Smiths
Morrissey's position was not helped by the fact he had recorded a song called Bengali in Platforms, included on Viva Hate.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3711637.stm   (846 words)

  
 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born 1958 inManchester
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born 1958 inManchester, Northern England.
Nobody really thought that Morrissey could move on as a solo artist but he kept writing songs and he turned to long-time Smiths engineer/producer Steven Street.
Despite the rough times, Morrissey recorded a new album, Vauxhall and I, which was released in 1994.
www.geocities.com /smithssupernova/history/steven_patrick_morrissey_was_bor.htm   (854 words)

  
 Morrissey history
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born 1958 in Manchester, Northern England.
In 1982 Morrissey was introduced to a guitarist named John Mahr.
Morrissey severed all contact with the media and started to work on a new album.
mrmorrissey.tripod.com /bio   (881 words)

  
 ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY OC Weekly: Cover: Their Charming Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Morrissey plays such a big role in Ben’s life that he has a death pact with his friend: whoever dies first will make sure that "Well I Wonder" ("Please keep me in mind/Please keep me in mind") is played at the funeral.
Morrissey’s participation in Jaguares’ Revolución Tour is another show of solidarity with the people who’ve made him a king.
Morrissey sings to the disaffected, and God knows alienation is part of the assimilation tradition—the equal and opposite reaction of the immigrants drive to blend in.
www.ocweekly.com /ink/03/02/cover-arellano.php   (2561 words)

  
 Interview Archive - The Paranoid World Of A Fallen Idol
Morrissey began to feel excluded from and annoyed by the debauchery, his concern illustrated in an incident with Joyce when the drummer had performed an encore while drunk.
Morrissey was sufficiently provoked to claim that reggae was the "most racist music in the entire world" and "a glorification of fl supremacy".
By 1992, Morrissey's life was increasingly schizophrenic, torn between the bustle of the road and the sanctity of his hermetic life in Bowdon, near Manchester, where he often spent time living with his mother.
motorcycleaupairboy.com /interviews/1998/uncut.htm   (10503 words)

  
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Hi, Morrissey and Steven street fell out over money street did not recieve for the single _interesting drug_ and he hindered its realease until the matter was solved, he hasnt worked with Morrissey since, infact in the next moz single _ouija board_ he the board spells s-t-e-v-e-n p-u-s-h o-double f good eh?
Morrissey aka Moz aka The Mozzer aka El Mozo etc. Over here (UK) Moz is regarded as a bit of a flake and consistently has the piss taken out of him in print.
Morrissey has stated many times that there is no bad blood (in his opinion) between the two and would gladly get back together with him.
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 The Face Morrissey Interview - 1984   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Morrissey that greets me in the doorway of his genteel Kensington abode is without his familiar voluminous D.H. Evans outsize shirt and beady accountrements.
And Steven Morrissey, the 24-year-old wordsmith, possessor the the voice and flinger of flowers.
Last Christmas in Manchester, Morrissey couldn't open his door for carollers singing "This Charming Man," the Smiths' second single on Rough Trade, the independent label to which they have plighted their troth.
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 Morrissey - Wikiquote
Morrissey (born May 22, 1959) English singer and songwriter former frontman of The Smiths; born Steven Patrick Morrissey
I always despised the name Steven, though being spelt with a 'v' rather than a 'ph' made life slightly more tolerable.
Joyce is a poor shambolic character in desperate need of money who has been treated abysmally by Morrissey and Marr - when the fact was he had been treated with absolute generosity, considering the minor role that he played.
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 Interview - Len Brown, Spin Magazine, June 1988
Morrissey became the hero of the lonely, the disenfranchised, the outsider, speaking, some might even say singing, for the loners who hated being alone but couldn't stand the company of others.
Morrissey last saw his songwriting partner and guitarist, Johnny Marr, in May of '87, and lost contact with drummer Mike Joyce and bass player Andy Rourke last July.
Morrissey has stylishly confounded those critics who believed that his songwriting partnership with Johnny Marr was a one-off, like Lennon/McCartney or Jagger/Richards.
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 Interview Archive - Fan-Mail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And the number of Morrissey fans claiming "November spawned a monster" to be as brilliant as "This Charming man" is huge.
Morrissey belongs to a category of people who might’ve been watching an episode of the TV series Dad’s Army the night before, felt sympathy for the lads at the front and therefore cancelled all interviews with the German press.
The image of Morrissey as the lonely cynic, who in his little house outside Manchester grows daffodils, drinks tea and reads Oscar Wilde is completely true.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Arts quizzes | Morrissey quiz
To mark Morrissey's Meltdown festival on London's South Bank, find out how much you know about one of the greatest songwriters of his generation
In a summer of festivities, Morrissey is also lined up to play Glastonbury for (touch wood) the first time since his infamous last-minute cancellation in what year?
Morrissey is reputed to have said that he could retire happy having had tea with one of his chosen Meltdown performers.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/quiz/questions/0,12161,1235015,00.html   (193 words)

  
 The Smiths Home
The Smiths are, or were, Mike Joyce, Johnny Marr, Steven Morrissey and Andy Rourke.
In an intense 5 years Between 1983 and 1987 The Smiths released almost 20 singles and 7 albums, and are recognised by the critics as one of the most significant bands of the 1980's.
It is difficult to believe that Morrissey has been a solo artist longer than 2 lifetimes of The Smiths, but his impact on the music industry declined significantly after 1987.
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 Las Vegas Mercury: Off the charts: Morrissey
The rest, as the Brits might say, is rubbish--although Morrissey did spit out at least one enlightening personal insight to rock journalist Nick Kent: "The key incident for me was that I never had any friends.
THE QUEEN IS DEAD: Some Morrissey fanatics believe the visionary frontman foretold of Princess Diana's 1997 death with the Smiths' 1986 album The Queen Is Dead.
This year, Morrissey took his pro-animal activism to a new level, brandishing a sign in a photo shoot for Index magazine that read, "We hate Iams." The reference was to the popular pet-food manufacturer, which PETA claims engages in "cruel and deadly" experiments on dogs and cats.
www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Apr-15-Thu-2004/23627282.html   (623 words)

  
 BRIT Awards • Artists • Morrissey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Capturing the mood of an entire generation of angst-ridden boys, Steven Patrick Morrissey is truly a musical icon.
Born in Manchester, Morrissey co-founded The Smiths with Johnny Marr in 1982.
However chart success did not always match Morrissey's 'favourite son' status, and a quiet spell ended in 2004 with a highly acclaimed Sanctuary Records album You Are The Quarry.
brits.co.uk /artists/Morrissey   (245 words)

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