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    The Guardian: Neil Morrissey on Morrissey - "Poor bloke" (March 14, 2024)

    Oh please! Like "Mike Rourke" pointed out, he's just jesting with the interviewer. Neil Morrissey clearly knows who his namesake is and knows that Morrissey still releases new music when he finds a record company to do it for him. There's nothing in his comments that is in any way derogatory. As...
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    Morrissey Central "KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY FALL DOWN" (February 17, 2024)

    Sending out the album to reviewers is not really proper promotion but the bare minimum. To not do that would be scandalous. All albums had the same Covid problem as Morrissey. If you really wanted the album, you could order it online.
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    Morrissey Central "KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY FALL DOWN" (February 17, 2024)

    Well, LIHS was his first album with BMG, who actually made an effort with it. Two proper videos, even Morrissey doing some interviews (with disastrous results), advertising and so on. Plus Spent the Day in Bed was his most commercial single in a very long while: it got airplay and people...
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    Morrissey & synthetizers

    Electronic music and hip hop are the mainstream now. Guitar bands are very much in the marginal nowadays. Of course this can also benefit The Smiths, when there are so few current bands doing guitar pop well and with intelligence.
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    Morrissey & synthetizers

    I guess one reason is that PSB, DM and Duran Duran have all sold many times over the amount that The Smiths have. They have also reissued their classic albums many times in several different formats. So there's much more physical copies around that the fans can listen to. It also seems that for...
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    Morrissey & synthetizers

    On a more serious note, Morrissey is a poet. His lyrics are poetry, they just happen to have pop music behind them. So it's pretty normal for Morrissey to also read poetry, perhaps not every night, but surely more often than he watches dismal action movies like Alien Vs. Predator. (For the...
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    Morrissey & synthetizers

    I'm pretty sure he goes to bed every night.
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    Morrissey & synthetizers

    You might be exactly right. Just like naming the band as "The Smiths" was an antidote to all pretentious band names like Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark. But I would have never expected him to say anything positive about Duran Duran, not to even mention naming their work as the single of the...
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    Morrissey & synthetizers

    Some days ago in Facebook I came across a clipping in which Morrissey reviews the singles for some weekly magazine (Record Mirror? No. 1?) in 1984. It was a surprising read, since Morrissey awarded Duran Duran's Wild Boys as "the bestest single of the week" and also was very appreciative of...
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    What now? A frank and open deep conversation

    Like Harsh Truth pointed out, last autumn he cancelled Mexico City, Bogota, Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Brasilia, Chek Lap Kok, Bangkok, Jakarta, Perth and Auckland. That's nearly half of the announced tour from September to December 2023.
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    What now? A frank and open deep conversation

    But you're really referring to the 2017--2020 era and a record contract that doesn't exist anymore. The last album was released four years ago and the last two tours have been total disasters, one half-cancelled and the second one didn't even start. It has been all scorched earth since 2020.
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    Kill Uncle and Southpaw Grammar - what ifs

    Mark Nevin has also said that Kill Uncle suffered because he didn't know how Morrissey worked. The stuff he sent Morrissey were very early versions of the songs, because he expected that Moz would give him some feedback and then they would work on them together. But no, Morrissey took them as...
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    What now? A frank and open deep conversation

    After the recent tour fiascos I think he should really write the whole 2024 off. Rest, get whatever help is needed (depending on the problem: addiction or depression, or both), try to mend bridges (like Amy wrote), reconnect with old friends, read a lot, watch movies, take long walks. Do nothing...
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    Both Quarry anniversary events cancelled (January 25, 2024)

    If that riles Morrissey, he could always give an interview. Or even acknowledge the debacle on his home page.
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    Official Manager Statement regarding Morrissey’s health (January 26, 2024)

    I used to be a heavy drinker too, an alcoholic to be precise, but then I realized that this can't go on. My health and sanity were starting to fail me and I am over a decade younger than Morrissey is. I would love to say that I'm totally sober now, but there have been a couple of relapses, so I...
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