UPDATE July 7:

Full interview scans from "Somos" posted by intlplayboy / tumblr (see comments).

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Morrissey: "Los medios solo celebran a gente que canta como zombies" - El Comercio / Peru

Cantante británico en entrevista con “Somos” habla sobre el estado actual de la música pop, la política de su país, su salud, entre otros temas

ÓSCAR GARCÍA

Google Translate - Spanish to English ("full interview in the print edition, p. 44")

Original link from cloverdean13 / tumblr

Five-minute memoir: When in Rome - The Independent
Douglas Coupland was all set to interview Morrissey. And then the sleeping pills kicked in...

Excerpt-

In 2006, I flew to Rome to interview Morrissey for the weekend supplement of a UK paper.
I flew from Vancouver and to buffer the time-zone change, I was taking the latest in sleeping tablets and then… and then it all went horribly sideways.

An anonymous person sends the link:

Top 100 Albums of 1984: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 5 - Slicing Up Eyeballs

1. The Smiths, The Smiths
BACKSTORY: Having scrapped their original sessions with Troy Tate, The Smiths made their debut with this John Porter-produced collection — although many fans still prefer the BBC session versions of some of these songs that appeared on the Hatful of Hollow compilation later in 1984.

Photos posted via Last of the Famous International Playboys / Tumblr:

Morrissey rehearses at Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, Peru on July 5th

Picture by Rodolfo Vilchez on Facebook.

Link via Last of the Famous International Playboys / Tumblr (see link for more pics of Morrissey in Peru):

Metal Peru - true-to-you.net

5 July 2013

Metal Peru

I am humbled beyond belief by the reception here in Lima, Peru, and also by the ongoing welcome. For me, it is incredible - once more. If Chile, Argentina and Brazil are as giving, I shall ask no more and die happy. Peru, Peru - my heart's lighthouse.

Morrissey
5 July 2013

Sparks Prep Lyrics Book, Get Morrissey to Pen Introduction - Exclaim.ca
By Gregory Adams

Earlier this year, long-running pop outsiders Sparks issued their first-ever live LP, and now the brother duo have marked another milestone by prepping a lyrics book fittingly titled In the Words of Sparks...

The 200-page printed collection arrives August 31 through Tam Tam Books. In the Words of Sparks... was edited by Ron and Russell Mael, and a press release explains that they selected 75 songs for inclusion. While a full list of what's inside the book has not appeared, the press sheet hints that "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us," "Cool Places," "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Nature," and "No. 1 in...

Link posted by Stuart in Morrissey News / Facebook:

Morrissey llega a Lima y recibe el cariño de sus fans - Terra
01 de julio de 2013 a las 13:51

Maybe he should have come to the Morrissey birthday come-back in May '04 as I did at M.E.N.
But maybe he was still having his wee panties changed

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