Tag Archives: Morrissey

Call Off The Shots: Girls Aloud Split Up

By | Posted on March 21st, 2013
Girls Aloud at the 2009 Brit Awards. (AP Photo/John Marshall, JME)

It must be lovely to be a rocksnob. Imagine how much time you save in your music-loving day having your decisions already made for you.

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Listen: Super-Rare Rehearsal Recordings Of The Smiths

By | Posted on March 20th, 2013
The Smiths

What with Morrissey incapacitated by pneumonia and Johnny Marr rampantly striding the world’s stages as a solo act, it’s the perfect time to take a look back at the very beginning of their respective careers, with this ...

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Morrissey Hospitalized With Double Pneumonia

By | Posted on March 12th, 2013
Morrissey (Press Association via AP Images)

OK, hands up, who’s been attacking Morrissey’s immune system? Militant meat eaters, was it you? I’m looking in your direction, the royalists, anything to confess?

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Another Day, Another Preposterous Morrissey Quote…

By | Posted on February 27th, 2013
Morrissey (Press Association via AP Images)

In every Morrissey interview there is a quote. It might sit next to beautifully expressed thoughts about the nature of performance, about the nature of personal growth, about what exactly is wrong with celebrity culture, but it will be ...

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David Bowie Won’t Allow Morrissey to Use Private Photo

By | Posted on February 7th, 2013
We got beef: David Bowie and Morrissey (Photos: AP)

Brit music icons David Bowie and Morrissey are engaged in a bit of a skirmish, according to reports today. Apparently, Morrissey is re-issuing his 1989 single “The Last of the Famous International Playboys” and wanted to use ...

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WATCH: Morrissey Performs ‘Action is My Middle Name’ on ‘Letterman’

By | Posted on January 9th, 2013
The Moz on 'The Late Show with David Letterman.'

The same day David Bowie emerged from his decade-long exile (January 8), Morrissey popped up on The Late Show with David Letterman, lassoing his microphone cord, surrounded by his studly band in fitted button-up shirts, performing his ...

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For The Last Time, World, The Smiths Have Split Up

By | Posted on October 2nd, 2012

Internet, I love you, but you’re starting to become irritating on certain topics: The way you encourage people to talk to each other for the first time as if they’ve been bitter enemies for years, for example, or the way you ...

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So Who’s Going To Appear At The Closing Ceremony Of The London Games?

By | Posted on August 7th, 2012

Having effectively blown cynics away with the opening ceremony (or at the very least shushed them up for a week or so), the organisers of the London Games have something of a hill to climb in coming up with an appropriate ending. ...

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WATCH: Spoof Stone Roses Documentary ‘The Second Second Coming’

By | Posted on June 28th, 2012

We’ve all seen those rock docos where an endless parade of talking heads trot out their half-baked ideas about bands and music and how things are made and what they do when they are made and all that. It’s a format which is ...

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The Brit List: Five Great British Songs Criticizing America

By | Posted on May 2nd, 2012

We already looked at five British songs in praise of the US of A on Monday, so, purely in the interests of balance, and without meaning to start a global musical conflict (although I for one would welcome some new songs that are not ...

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