Released today Feb 14th 2023 on channel P3 (Swedish national radio):
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/morrissey-fran-pionjar-till-paria
Info (translated with google translate):
Morrissey - from pioneer to pariah (62 min)
This is the story of an outspoken indie pioneer who went from worshiped to cancelled.
The summer of 1992 has been unusually rainy in London, but on Saturday 8 August the sun shines on the 30,000 concertgoers in Finsbury Park. The operatic voice booms as Morrissey enters the stage. His blue jeans are quite tight and the shiny gold shirt is unbuttoned all the way to the navel. But the audience is moderately impressed.
The cult-declared ska-pop band Madness is behind the Madstock festival, and Morrissey has been invited at the last minute. The former The Smiths frontman therefore does not have very many supporters in front of the stage. Instead, the audience this day consists largely of far-right skinheads. But it's only during the second song that the mood gets really bad. Because suddenly Morrissey picks up a British flag from the stage floor, which he dances around with and sweeps over his shoulders. Out in the audience, boos are mixed with homophobic slurs, and objects are thrown onto the stage. The skinheads don't think it's appropriate that the queer Morrissey wraps himself in their Union Jack.
The gig leads to night-black headlines in the British music press, but the focus is not on the fact that Morrissey was heckled and subjected to homophobia. Instead, the articles are about Morrissey's flirtation with right-wing nationalist aesthetics having gone too far.
P3 Music documentary about Morrissey is the story of the Brit who in the 80s revolutionized pop music and became known for always kicking upwards, but who in recent years has been accused of the opposite.
The documentary was made by Joanna Korbutiak in January 2023
Producer Siri Hill
Executive producer Hanna Frelin
Technician Fredrik Nilsson.
Cast: Andres Lokko, Jasmine Rhya Rosenlund and Lovisa Sandberg.
The audio clips in the documentary come from Top of The Pops (BBC 1983), The One Show (BBC 2009), Granada Report (1984), Jools Holland (BBC 1995), Guitar Interactive Magazine (2013), AP (1984), Radio X ( 2018), Larry King (2015), Front Row (BBC Radio 2009), The Importance of Being Morrissey (2002), the concert film Wolverhampton 88, the Rolling Rockvideos and Sam Esty Rayner Youtube accounts.
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/morrissey-fran-pionjar-till-paria
Info (translated with google translate):
Morrissey - from pioneer to pariah (62 min)
This is the story of an outspoken indie pioneer who went from worshiped to cancelled.
The summer of 1992 has been unusually rainy in London, but on Saturday 8 August the sun shines on the 30,000 concertgoers in Finsbury Park. The operatic voice booms as Morrissey enters the stage. His blue jeans are quite tight and the shiny gold shirt is unbuttoned all the way to the navel. But the audience is moderately impressed.
The cult-declared ska-pop band Madness is behind the Madstock festival, and Morrissey has been invited at the last minute. The former The Smiths frontman therefore does not have very many supporters in front of the stage. Instead, the audience this day consists largely of far-right skinheads. But it's only during the second song that the mood gets really bad. Because suddenly Morrissey picks up a British flag from the stage floor, which he dances around with and sweeps over his shoulders. Out in the audience, boos are mixed with homophobic slurs, and objects are thrown onto the stage. The skinheads don't think it's appropriate that the queer Morrissey wraps himself in their Union Jack.
The gig leads to night-black headlines in the British music press, but the focus is not on the fact that Morrissey was heckled and subjected to homophobia. Instead, the articles are about Morrissey's flirtation with right-wing nationalist aesthetics having gone too far.
P3 Music documentary about Morrissey is the story of the Brit who in the 80s revolutionized pop music and became known for always kicking upwards, but who in recent years has been accused of the opposite.
The documentary was made by Joanna Korbutiak in January 2023
Producer Siri Hill
Executive producer Hanna Frelin
Technician Fredrik Nilsson.
Cast: Andres Lokko, Jasmine Rhya Rosenlund and Lovisa Sandberg.
The audio clips in the documentary come from Top of The Pops (BBC 1983), The One Show (BBC 2009), Granada Report (1984), Jools Holland (BBC 1995), Guitar Interactive Magazine (2013), AP (1984), Radio X ( 2018), Larry King (2015), Front Row (BBC Radio 2009), The Importance of Being Morrissey (2002), the concert film Wolverhampton 88, the Rolling Rockvideos and Sam Esty Rayner Youtube accounts.
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