For someone who often seems determined to alienate his fanbase, Morrissey has a knack for intuiting exactly what they want [ . . . ]
Source: Morrissey review – aloof, obnoxious and proudly provocative
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Rebel yell: how the Irish dominated British rock music
From The Beatles to The Pogues, Oasis and The Smiths, musicians of Irish descent played a key role in UK scene, writes Johnny Rogan.
British pop music has been celebrated around the world for decades and rightly so. Rather less attention has been paid to an almost invisible strain of Irishness manifested in the work and characters of several of its leading proponents. A number of these icons, particularly those born of postwar Irish parentage, shared certain characteristics. They were often angry, awkward, polemic personalities whose music or lyrics challenged and subverted. Ironically, many were considered English to the core, but scratch deeper and a different picture emerges. Tracing their stories takes you spiralling through four decades from Merseybeat through psychedelia, punk, Britpop and beyond.
Lennon & McCartney
Back in the early ’60s, Liverpool was the centre of the pop universe. Many of the city’s beat groups boasted members of Irish descent, including the biggest of them all: The Beatles […]
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Johnny Marr Comments On Morrissey’s Brexit Support
With Johnny Marr revealing earlier this week, via an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, that a reunion of The Smiths almost happened in 2008, he has now said that Morrissey’s pro-Brexit opinions are another reason why the reunion is very unlikely to ever happen.
Marr revealed that he and Morrissey had met to speak about the possibility of a reunion eight years ago, but contact between the two was soon lost. As FACT reports, Marr appeared last night on Sky News and, when asked about the possibility of a reunion of the band, said that although he does not believe everything that is reported, if it is indeed true that Morrissey is pro-Brexit and a supporter of Nigel Farage, it would put a “slight drawback” on those plans.
Morrissey had called the UK’s decision to leave the EU “magnificent” in an interview last month, while also taking the opportunity to criticise mainstream British media’s coverage of the referendum which took place earlier this year.
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