MORRISSEY California Son (BMG) Somewhere in an office smelling of despair and yesterday’s unwisely chosen fish lunch, a record company executive is slowly plucking out the few hairs not already fallen out due to stress-induced alopecia. It looked so simple, so fiendishly clever, in three steps you can imagine in a senior departments memo. Keep Morrissey away from lyrics so he can’t say something racist/nationalist/insulting we will need to mop up in the press kit. Keep his du

Jack Lowden as Stephen Patrick Morrissey Mark Gill, the director of England Is Mine, an unusual biopic of the anything but usual vocal/lyrical half of those now famous Smiths’ songs, explains why for him there was only one way to tell this story. HERE’S the problem for writer/director Mark Gill in one off-camera moment before this interview even starts. It’s the morning after a heavy snow dump in England’s north west and Gill’s partner is wondering if she should attempt to ge

MORRISSEY Low In High School (BMG) I know you have been saying to yourself, if there is any musician whose views on Middle East matters I want to hear about it is Stephen Patrick Morrissey. The man who brought us Bengali In Platforms (“Bengali in platforms, he only wants to embrace your culture …. break the news to him gently, shelve your plans, shelve your plans … life is hard enough when you belong here”) and The National Front Disco (whose lyrics could be described politel

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