12-09-2025, 07:26 PM
This post was last modified: 12-10-2025, 12:06 PM by Stealth Blimp.
I've been a huge Morrissey fan since my teens. I actually prefer him alone than with the Smiths. Don't get me wrong the Smiths were a graat band and the perfect antidote to much of the terrible chart music fodder of the 1980s but Morrissey really developed as a lyricist after the Smiths were dissolved in 1987. Too many of his early lyrics are indebted to Salford playwright Shelagh Delaney and even he later admitted he took this obsession with her too far. The albums he recorded in the 1990s have muscle which reflected his new found interest in boxing.
I saw him live in Manchester in 2004 but ironically the album he was promoting is my least favourite of his. As I'm apolitical I have no interest what Morrissey's political views are but the British press, particularly the Guardian seemed to have a vendetta against him and often depict him as "far-right" (whatever that is) for having mild anti-immigration views which wouldn't have been out of place in the Tory party forty years ago.
I saw him live in Manchester in 2004 but ironically the album he was promoting is my least favourite of his. As I'm apolitical I have no interest what Morrissey's political views are but the British press, particularly the Guardian seemed to have a vendetta against him and often depict him as "far-right" (whatever that is) for having mild anti-immigration views which wouldn't have been out of place in the Tory party forty years ago.
