Now this is great. I love classical music, Bach all the way, but I love Beethoven, Mozart, Pachelbel and Vivaldi too. I went to a proper classical concert for the first time in Oxford in April and the brilliance of it totally blew me away, it was almost painfully beautiful.....just like my first Moz concert, which leads to your question.. In 2007, I didn't even know who Morrissey was. I heard of him through Oscar Wilde, so to say, who's been my hero for years now. I looked him up on Youtube, heard Irish Blood...and I was hooked. Doesn't that sound so blunt and unemotional though? "on Youtube".. I'm really sad I'd never heard of him before. I've always, also pre-Moz, wished I'd been born 20 years earlier to experience the 80s. I'm not romantic, but I miss romance in music. There's no passion, beauty, non-mainstream...or dreams (which is Traum in german, by the way) in music nowadays, it lacks every form of expression, it's simply frustrating. Just by coincidence I mentioned the Smiths to my mother (I usually don't bother, because she hardly listens to anything but Metal (and Classical) these days) and she was apparently crazy about them in the 80s. She had all those old tapes and vinyls from the beginning on, but she sold her whole collection a few years ago when we moved...what a pity, really. Anyway, speaking of passion and dreams.. I've come to immensely like Morrissey's fan community, really. I've never seen such support, love and commitment to this extent. I'm very passionate about the music that is dear to me, but I got used to that making me a somewhat bewildering character because noone shared it. And then I started talking to Morrissey fans, who cross countries and continents to see him and find nothing bewildering in that. That's the idea of music to me.. And Moz is a whole other dimension again, obviously. I already can't remember anymore what it's like to not know him and to not get withdrawls after one day without his or the Smiths' music..