Morrissey is always going to disappoint those who want him to be some kind of ‘singing Stephen Fry with a quiff’, argues Mark Simpson Originally appeared on The Spectator Arts Blog Because the 80s is the decade that actually ended the 20th Century – the 90s was just an after-party clean-up operation… Read More »Morrissey Hasn’t Changed – We Have
Shelagh Delaney the Salford-born child-prodigy author of the ground-breaking, hugely influential — and touchingly funny — 1958 play ‘A Taste of Honey’ died at the weekend from cancer, aged 71. Below is a classic Monitor profile of Delaney and Salford from 1960, directed by Ken Russell, no less. Fifty years on Delaney the… Read More »Shelagh Delaney Finally Sails on the Alley Alley-Oh
The widely critically-acclaimed, innovative — and egotistical — ‘psycho-bio’ of pop’s most elusive, most adored, most charming and most alarming front-man is now available for instant download on Amazon Kindle (including Kindle for PC, iPhone and iPad). “The most incisive biography of Morrissey yet published”– James Maker, “The Fifth Smith“ “Simpson is funny,… Read More »Mark Simpson’s Saint Morrissey Now Available as an e-book
There’s a naked man standing laughing in your dreams.You know who it is, but you don’t like what it means. A number of people have forwarded Morrissey’s pubes to me. (For which, many thanks.) I thought I could get away with not discussing the Moz minge, but this Red Hot… Read More »Morrissey’s Seven Inch Plastic Strap-On