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Morrissey’s ‘Autobiography’
Penguin Classics, the publishing imprint of Homer, Dante and Dickens, has a new author: Steven Patrick Morrissey, former frontman of The Smiths, whose Autobiography arrived in bookshops last week to take its place alongside The Iliad and The Inferno.
What a shame Penguin failed to publish it a few weeks earlier, then Moz might have been eligible for this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Instead – is that a wail of despair from the much put-upon singer? – it goes to some second-rate scribbler called Alice Munro. Typical!
It was apparently Morrissey who insisted that his memoir appear as a Penguin Classic. Lack of self-belief has never handicapped him. When The Smiths’ first album came out in 1984, he informed an interviewer that it was “absolute perfection” and a “total baring of the soul”. “I think,” the “tall, sallow youth of 24” added, “it must be seen as some kind of landmark in music, and I do expect the highest praise.”
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Autobiography Morrissey
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Morrissey - Autobiography
Morrissey
Mozza or Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.
Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (plus nine with the Smiths), his songs have been recorded by David Bowie, Nancy Sinatra, Marianne Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde, Thelma Houston, My Chemical Romance and Christy Moore, amongst others.
An animal protectionist, in 2006 Morrissey was voted the second greatest living British icon by viewers of the BBC, losing out to Sir David Attenborough. In 2007 Morrissey was voted the greatest northern male, past or present, in a nationwide newspaper poll. In 2012, Morrissey was awarded the Keys to the City of Tel-Aviv.
It has been said ‘Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his li