‘Only stone and steel accept my love…’ Or can handle it. ‘Throwing My Arms Around Paris’ is the swooning new single from the (Moz-cara wearing) old groaner, full of his curiously uplifting despair throwing its empty arms around… his audience again. The perfect companion piece to last year’s bottom-spanking ‘All… Read More »Morrissey Throwing His Lallies Around Paree
…asks OUT in a preamble to an interview with the falsetto pop singer who dodges labels: The musician, whose debut single, “Grace Kelly,” earned him comparisons to Freddie Mercury, has made a fine art of dodging the question of whether he’s gay, straight, or something in between, but the more… Read More »‘Is Mika just the 21st Century version of Morrissey?’
Saint Morrissey has been published in Finland by rather tasteful, rather arty publisher Sammakko, translated by Antti Nylen. Proving that the Morrissey illness is no respecter of national boundaries St Moz has also been translated into Greek, Bulgarian and American. ‘That’s all very well,’ I hear you mutter at the back, ‘but… Read More »Saint Morrissey translated into Finnish
(Originally appeared here 10/1/07) First the Tory party, now the BBC. Is there any daggy British institution that isn’t scrabbling for a sweaty piece of Mozza’s gold lamé shirt, like an especially wild-eyed fan at the end of a gig? You can hardly have escaped the news that, after last year’s grinding nadir… Read More »A man of great Euro-vision
Johnny Morrissey was runner-up. Which is, along with ‘sixteen clumsy and shy’, the story of his life. Always running-up, never quite arriving. All things considered, it’s probably just as well no one took any notice of me and he didn’t win. David Attenborough’s acceptance speech made me realise – after I… Read More »Johnny Morris is voted ‘Britain’s Greatest Living Cultural Icon’