This Disarming Man: Morrissey’s Smiths Solo
When ageing Smiths fans like me sing along to ‘This Charming Man’, their second, breakthrough 1983 single – and the song that ruined our lives… Read More »This Disarming Man: Morrissey’s Smiths Solo
When ageing Smiths fans like me sing along to ‘This Charming Man’, their second, breakthrough 1983 single – and the song that ruined our lives… Read More »This Disarming Man: Morrissey’s Smiths Solo
I was contacted recently by Xavi Sancho of the Spanish national newspaper El Pais, who commissioned the recent profile of me, for some quotes for a major feature… Read More »‘The J.K. Rowling of Pop’
How Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ biopic undresses your mind Twenty-two years ago, when this now heavily skid-marked millennium was still brand, spanking new, I went to see… Read More »Elvis: The Fully Clothed Striptease Artist
China’s ruling Communist Party has reportedly finally had enough of impossible male prettiness, and is cracking down on the promotion of metrosexuality. ‘Sissy’ boybands, ‘vulgar’… Read More »China’s Metrosexual Crackdown
Mark Simpson meets Mr Devo turned Mutato (Details magazine, 1998) Before the First World War, a bunch of Italian avant-gardistes called the Futurists, who didn’t… Read More »Mark Mothersbaugh’s Mutation