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Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.Achieving twelve Top 10 albums (plus nine with the Smiths), his songs have been recorded by David Bowie, Nancy Sinatra, Marianne Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde, Thelma Houston, My Chemical Romance and Christy Moore, amongst others. An animal protectionist, in 2006 Morrissey was voted the second greatest living British icon by viewers of the BBC, losing out to Sir David Attenborough. In 2007 Morrissey was voted the greatest northern male, past or present, in a nationwide newspaper poll. In 2012, Morrissey was awarded the Keys to the City of Tel-Aviv. It has been said 'Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.'Autobiography covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day.
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Utgivelsesår 2013
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780141394817
EAN 9780141394817
Serie Penguin classics
Omtalt sted England
Omtalt person Morrissey
Språk Engelsk
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Hadde boka bestått av personkarakteristikker av mennesker innenfor popmusikkens verden og plateanmeldelser ville jeg utvilsomt gitt boken terningkast 6. Morrissey er supervittig, men det trekket fremkommer ikke nok i Autobiography.
Bunnpunktet til artistbiografier er som regel oppvekstskildringen. Avsnitt etter avsnitt fylt av mimring om dårlig råd og popstjernedrømmer er aldri noe som får pulsen til å stige. Autobiography er intet unntak, og jeg leste pliktskyldig denne delen uten noe glede. Og siden tar det aldri av. Det er misnøye med det meste. Jeg aksepterer at det er en del av pakken når man beveger seg inn i Morrisseyworld, men hele passasjen om rettssaken var bånn kjedelig og til tider for mye nag nag nag.
Menigheten vil sluke hvert ord. Autobiography er utvilsomt for spesielt interesserte.
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Tor Arne Dahl siterer Autobiography av Morrissey (side 194)
21:40, 20. november 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Whilst in Denver, Colorado, Johnny and I attend a concert by A-ha, whom we have met previously and whom we quite like. The hall is rammed with very small females who squeal at an intolerable volume throughout the concert, drowning out all of the songs. Because of this, the night is a mess. While it's true that girls screamed at Sparks, there was something utterly pointless about the high-pitched mass squeal that blanketed the hall for A-ha. There was hardly any necessity for the band to actually play. Backstage, A-ha are gracious. They are healthy and athletic and inherently decent, with their rosebud Norwegian propriety, and this is interesting to me because it shows me how the mission to sing isn't always a result of pain.
Tor Arne Dahl siterer Autobiography av Morrissey (side 66)
23:02, 13. november 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I crawl from the cultureless world to Stretford Hardrock in September 1972, where David Bowie is showcasing the venue. At midday he emerges from a black Mercedes, every inch the eighth dimension, teetering on high heels, with all the wisdom of our ancestors. Smiling keenly, he accepts the note of a dull schoolboy whose overblown soul is more ablaze than the school blazer he wears, and thus I touched the hand of this inexplicably liberating reformer; he, a Wildean visionary about to re-mold England, and I, a spectacle of suffering in a blue school uniform.
Tor Arne Dahl siterer Autobiography av Morrissey (side 371)
14:53, 27. november 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
[...] Sarah Ferguson remains lodged in the US talk show mind as a British 'royal' boil, or at least as someone who has had the honor of hearing the Queen belch after a rousing luncheon of peppered horse.
Tor Arne Dahl siterer Autobiography av Morrissey (side 429)
22:15, 27. november 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
In Birmingham, Alabama, I rush myself to a dentist for the first time in 20 years. I insist upon codeine mixed with heroin and gin in order to settle my nerves, but this simple request is denied.
Tor Arne Dahl siterer Autobiography av Morrissey (side 142)
10:55, 17. november 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
When my old friend Simon Topping appeared on the cover of the NME, I died a thousand deaths of sorrow and lay down in the woods to die.
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