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Morrissey photo, around the age of 18
posted by davidt on Tuesday February 13 2001, @10:00AM

 David T (different) writes:

I got the picture from a DJ in London whose name is Farzana. She put an advert in the NME for a copy of the New York Dolls book, and got a reply from a girl in Norway who was penpals with Moz in 1980, who offered to swap the book and the photo for some pictures of Brad Pitt (or Rob Lowe, or somebody like that) which she cut out of a magazine. It is her prize possession, and I'm very grateful to her for having shared it with me/us.

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    I luv Mozzy (Score:1)
    Aaawwww...... ain't he just gorgeous...??? How could someone like he ever think he was ugly..?
    Mozzarella -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @10:04AM (#7741)
    (User #864 Info | http://www.bozboorer.com/ )
     If I wasn't a cat, I'd be a girl.
    Me too. (Score:1)
    He looks like he has a secret, doesn't he? Sexy as ever.
    ms_smith86 <ms_smith86@hotmail.com> -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @10:10AM (#7743)
    (User #635 Info)
      He looks like David from Roseane (Score:1)
      Minus the curls...
      palare -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @10:16AM (#7745)
      (User #152 Info | http://worldofabrahan.com/ )
       where the world's ugliest boy became what you see...
      woah (Score:1)
      kinda looks like oscar wilde, no?
      Maplefreak -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @10:22AM (#7746)
      (User #1234 Info)
       And the songs we sing, they're not supposed to mean a thing...
      No, he doesn't (Score:0)
      No, he doesn't look anything like Oscar Wilde.
      Anonymous -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @11:09AM (#7749)
        This picture is sensational! (Score:0)
        He was lonely, don't you see
        Anonymous -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @11:41AM (#7750)
          Everytime I see a photo of him at that age (Score:1)
          I think how better he looked with that hairstyle, instead of with the different quiffs...
          I love that pic from the Severed Alliance book as well, him leaning on an armchair, staring at the camera from behind his folded arms...It says it was taken in 1980, but it looks pretty much the same as in this one.
          Lovely.
          Lancaster -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @11:54AM (#7753)
          (User #1451 Info)
           Lancaster, Spanish Mod Sophisticate; A boy in Bush is worth two in the Strand
          Thanks! (Score:1)
          I finally found a suitable wallpaper for my computer at work! :)
          Lifeguard Sleeping -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @11:58AM (#7754)
          (User #58 Info)
          • Addendum by Lifeguard Sleeping (Score:1) Tuesday February 13 2001, @02:31PM
            He truly is.. (Score:1)
            the sexiest man alive!!!
            Axed -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @01:40PM (#7757)
            (User #1405 Info)
              Phew, Wow! (Score:1)
              He looks fabulous! Like someone out of a 1930's movie.

              Wobble.
              Little Miss Curious -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @01:56PM (#7760)
              (User #112 Info)
               [Insert amusing Morrissey lyric here]
                Morrissey picture? (Score:1, Funny)
                It seems to be a fraud to me.
                Anonymous -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @02:01PM (#7764)
                WOW.. the things this picture bring to mind! ;-) (Score:1)
                He is so Handsome it brings tears to my eyes! Hehe.. It reminds me of the first time i laid My eyes on him. I had just bought The Smiths "singles" ( Yes i got into them a little late!) --after A friend of mine played them constantly all summer and I HAD to hear more. I opened up the booklet inside expecting to see this dark, awkward looking man with long shabby hair :-)

                And boy was I surprised! He was the most gorgeous looking thing I had ever seen! I couldn't believe he wrote songs about noone noticing him...
                It both inspired and fascinated me that he could express himself the way he did, with such confidence and brilliant words, coming from someone so "plain" and "shy"

                Anyway sorry to ramble on but I'm glad eventually he did get noticed! He deserved it.
                Crystal -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @02:21PM (#7766)
                (User #1644 Info)
                 " You might be depressed but you're remarkably dressed and that's all you need"
                nice (Score:1)
                lovely photo of the moz - i want to copy it so it can adorn my wall with all my other pics of him.
                rusholmeruffian -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @03:12PM (#7772)
                (User #1450 Info)
                 "Ask me why and I'll spit in your eye"
                  mr. wilde... (Score:1)
                  he is my favourite dorian gray. ...adorable!!
                  somnium -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @03:50PM (#7774)
                  (User #1086 Info)
                  Very nice (Score:1)
                  That's lovely. Looks a lot better than the other early teen photo in one of The Smiths books.
                  TOTBCR -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @04:37PM (#7775)
                  (User #1956 Info)
                   TurnOffTheBayCityRollers!
                    luck o the irish (Score:1)
                    he looks like he could be in the movie sequel to Angela's Ashes.

                    isn't he neat?
                    suzanne -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @05:25PM (#7779)
                    (User #36 Info | http://www.myspace.com/snootywriter )
                     I scare dead people.
                    Rusty James' or Tex McCormick's Shy brother? (Score:0)
                    This is just my humble opinion:

                    Moz kinda looks like Tex/Rumblefish era Matt Dillon (who also was 18, when he made those movies.

                    He kinda resembles Tex McCormick with shorter hair, or Rusty James with his hair differently done.
                    Anonymous -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @05:49PM (#7781)
                    Completely Off The Subject (Score:0)
                    He looks like a boy I had a huge crush on in High School. I didn't know him very well but I knew I liked him cause he was smart, shy, cute and wore Smiths t-shirts. I always assumed that he just thought of me as the girl who also wore Smiths shirts and sat in the back of the room but I seen him for the first time in 7 years at Morrissey's Irvine show and he came up to me with a big shy smile on his face and said hello to me. He even remembered my name. Too bad I was with the guy I was seeing back then. Needless to say, I went home feeling nice that night and not just because of Morrissey.
                    :-)
                    Anonymous -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @08:51PM (#7789)
                      Moz Photo (Score:0)
                      I never thought he was young. I guess I was wrong.
                      Anonymous -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @10:10PM (#7791)
                        New Romantics (Score:1)
                        Morrissey looks like a Spandau Ballet member.
                        [they were hot in the early 80's]
                        Or Phil Oakey, from the Human League, funny
                        to see how haircuts were in the early 80's.
                        [I was 15 in 1980]
                        And yes, he looks adoreble.
                        Celibate Cry <vauxhall@mail2uk.com> -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @10:41PM (#7794)
                        (User #220 Info)
                         and the hills are alive with celibate cries
                          Hairdresser on fire (Score:1)
                          It's great to see Morrissey with a different hair style of such a look of innocence as a young lad.... But it's not vintage Morrissey without the Pompadour!!!!!
                          The Ordinary Boy -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @11:31PM (#7796)
                          (User #2371 Info)
                            Cosmic dancer (Score:1)
                            "Is it wrong to understand
                              The fear that dwells inside a man
                              What's it like to be a loon
                              I liken it to a balloon"

                            indigo -- Tuesday February 13 2001, @11:39PM (#7798)
                            (User #1053 Info)
                             * Touch not the cat but a glove *
                              Tell me!!!! (Score:1)
                              How can someone be so cute????
                              : ))
                              Sad Girl <madaboutmoz@aol.com> -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @12:47AM (#7804)
                              (User #2357 Info)
                               You make us nervous...because we're very aware that you do not care...
                                *sniff* (Score:1)
                                i wish i'd known him... :(
                                KarlaAnne -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @06:53AM (#7814)
                                (User #949 Info | http://karlaanne.livejournal.com/ )
                                  Oh please! (Score:0, Troll)
                                  Adorable? Cute?

                                  I don't think so!! The hairstyle is nothing but terrible!! How can some of you say that he looks better without the quiff!!?
                                  yes, you are blind, no, you can't see!!
                                  Puppet on string <tweedcoat@hotmail.com> -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @07:33AM (#7817)
                                  (User #2114 Info)
                                   Everyday I have the blues!
                                  • Re:Oh please! by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday September 26 2001, @05:44PM
                                    people who don't care if he's living or dying (Score:0)
                                    Right, Puppet!! Do you people here really think he felt any sexy at the time the photo was taken? Don't you read in his face? Is 'cute' all you can see? Then you seem to know nothing about Moz.
                                    Anonymous -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @08:28AM (#7818)
                                    Put it away! (Score:1, Insightful)
                                    I feel so sorry for Morrissey having things like this dredged up. Nearly 20 years of creating an alternative public image to the one in the picture and all the time people who ever received a photo or letter feels the need to tell the world and put their boot right in it.
                                    So he looks miserable and young. I presume thats how he was. So what?
                                    This is where the obsession of Morrissey fans becomes uncomfortable for me. The power and need we have to investigate through blind devotion might, as I would bet in this case, really piss him off.
                                    Anonymous -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @08:44AM (#7820)
                                    oh (Score:1)
                                    Oh i think he is just darling , he is like fine wine he gets better with age.

                                    my own thoughts
                                    MozQgirl -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @11:07AM (#7825)
                                    (User #966 Info)
                                      He looks as if he really had (Score:0)
                                      a thorn in his side
                                      Anonymous -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @11:42AM (#7829)
                                        What a Dreamboat*sigh* (Score:1)
                                        just when you think he cant get any cuter...he's always been a stud=)
                                        luvmoz -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @11:52AM (#7831)
                                        (User #1756 Info)
                                          my mother used to sing this to me... (Score:1)
                                          quite a great little discovery! He looks like Duckie from "Pretty in Pink", don't he? Everyone knows that Duckie loved the Smiths... and Otis.
                                          ideal -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @01:29PM (#7835)
                                          (User #1492 Info)
                                           I will surely never find a girlfriend here...
                                            Paint a Grumpy Picture (Score:1)
                                            My God! I thought he looked miserable enough in the Smiths. This picture, however, manages to transcend even the more profound levels of grumpiness evident in Morrissey's solo career. Now that's saying something ...
                                            Same Old Suit -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @04:48PM (#7838)
                                            (User #934 Info)
                                              At My Own Risk (Score:0)
                                              I have a picture of Robert Smith at 18... With the same hairstyle.

                                              Sorry Moz, Dorry Bob, but I could easily mistace one by the other.

                                              (At least both will agree in something... KILLING ME [LOL])
                                              Anonymous -- Wednesday February 14 2001, @08:00PM (#7842)
                                              Such a collection of odd children (Score:2, Insightful)
                                              This has got to be the most shallow, most ridiculous series of comments that has ever paraded across this webpage.

                                              Maybe a few of you can help me out here because I'm a bit confused. For what resons did most of you start listening to Morrissey for? Was it because you happened across a picture of him and decided he was just too "Cute" to ignore.

                                              Do looks really play such an important roll to most of you that you feel compelled to attach this description to someone so profusely, and in a such a juvenile manner?

                                              Sometimes I feel like you people are unaware of what you're saying.

                                              In fact, I fell like I'm reading the back pages of junior-high school year book.

                                              What if the person in this photo was a horrendously disfigured character, do any of you think this thread would have descneded to this length with such adulation, even in the charitable sense?

                                              I find it odd seeing that the core of Morrissey's music has to do with feeling awkward and unbalanced, yet it seems so very important to many of you that a well finished visage be apparrent.

                                              I agree with whomever stated that if seeing Morrissey as adorable and cute in this picture is all you can see, then you've missed the point.

                                              You are all very odd, and I'm frightened to say the least.

                                              I'm backing away now.

                                              I'm outsided now.

                                              I'm way down the street.

                                              You can barely hear me.

                                               
                                              bornmad -- Thursday February 15 2001, @12:45AM (#7847)
                                              (User #2248 Info)
                                               I thought long and hard about it, and then I decided against it.
                                                Re:Such a collection of odd children (Score:2, Insightful)
                                                what is wrong with admiring a good looking guy? we can pontificate on how this attracts from his high-minded writing skills, but let's face it, most of rock music is based on sex. Elvis would be your average white guy covering blues songs. The Beatles would not have their hordes of screaming girls running after them to rip their shirts off. Frank Sinatra could not have made a career out of crooning love songs if people were opting to get analytical instead. Morrissey would not be able to make an enigma out of being celibate.

                                                But we can't explain Michael Jackson.

                                                Moving on...

                                                and yes, i did start listening to Moz because he had an incredibly sexy voice. so what? Am I bad person because I think in those terms?

                                                the fun thing is even though this is a crappy picture not done by any well known and overpaid photographer, that sneering star quality absolutely shines through. its' the eyes, I'm afraid. the bits of him I loved in other pictures are here plain as day.
                                                suzanne -- Thursday February 15 2001, @01:00AM (#7848)
                                                (User #36 Info | http://www.myspace.com/snootywriter )
                                                 I scare dead people.
                                                [ Parent ]
                                                • Re:Such a collection of odd children by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday February 15 2001, @01:11AM
                                                • Re:Such a collection of odd children by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday February 15 2001, @02:05AM
                                                    • Sing Me To Sleep (Score:2, Interesting)
                                                    Being that it IS a picture of Morrissey, well, yes, the first thing that comes to mind is - how is he looking?? What else are pictures for?

                                                    I LOVE the look on his face because he seems to be in deep thought...if you flip through Linder's book "Morrissey Shot" there is a picture where he is on a bus, sitting with three or four other people, and he's eating somthing from a little bag - he has, somewhat, the same look on his face. If you've the same book as I have (black and white cover, "Morrissey Shot" printed in red), it's on page 103.

                                                    Face it, Morrissey is a very handsome man physically, but he's beautiful inside as well. I started listening to Morrissey after I saw the video for "Suedehead". I was just floored that someone would dedicate a video to James Dean like that...I was a huge James Dean fan back then and had never heard of Morrissey, so I figured that if he had the decency to make a video of Jimmy's home town (and I liked the song, as well)then the rest of his LP couldn't be bad! So, I went out and bought Viva Hate, and I played it so much that it's warped now. Not only had I found someone with the same kind of love and respect for Jimmy that I had, but also someone who felt the same feelings as I did. It had absolutely NOTHING to do with his looks. If Morrissey had been a monstrosity - I still would have bought the LP.

                                                    What difference does it make if people say he's cute or adorable? I don't know about the rest of the people here, but at the end of the day, it's not a picture of Morrissey I've got beside me in bed, no...It's may discman with Morrissey's voice sending me off to safe and warm sleep.

                                                    hand in glove -- Thursday February 15 2001, @03:00AM (#7852)
                                                    (User #827 Info)
                                                     Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. - William Blake
                                                    [ Parent ]
                                                  • Re:Such a collection of odd children by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday June 15 2001, @09:03PM
                                                    vision of the m.a.n. (Score:1)
                                                    i could never get my "flick" to go like that.
                                                    lucky bastard.

                                                    a repressed eighties fan.....
                                                    still................
                                                    inlovewiththepast -- Thursday February 15 2001, @01:04AM (#7849)
                                                    (User #1028 Info)
                                                     truth rest your head there is more than a life at stake here..she may well sell sanctuary but she'll also sell your soul
                                                      Buck-toothed Girl (Score:0)
                                                      So the Buck-toothed Girl From Luxembourg was actually living in a Norwegian Wood!
                                                      Anonymous -- Thursday February 15 2001, @04:15AM (#7854)
                                                      Hug him please! (Score:1)
                                                      My oh my! He's just too good looking.........I tell you folks, if I had penpal who sent me a picture like this one - one with a guy looking so sad and thoughtful - I would definitely go all the way to England just to give him a hug! ..........Can't believe she didn't do that!
                                                      itmustbeobvious -- Thursday February 15 2001, @06:05AM (#7856)
                                                      (User #2296 Info)
                                                        how sad (Score:0)
                                                        that picture could be the saddest thing i have ever seen
                                                        Anonymous -- Thursday February 15 2001, @07:36AM (#7859)
                                                        • Re:how sad by J. Razor (Score:1) Monday February 19 2001, @12:18PM
                                                          What Happened?? (Score:1)
                                                          Dude went from Dorian Gray to "Where's Waldo" in just a few years. In fact, that picture reminds me of the pic on the best of-suedehead import CD.
                                                          Jim Rome -- Thursday February 15 2001, @01:46PM (#7895)
                                                          (User #720 Info | http://www.jimrome.com/ )
                                                           ...and how?
                                                            Aw, natural (Score:1)
                                                            Boymen who illuminate the sort of natural male beauty that Morrissey projects in this photo are on the verge of turning me Heter or maybe even Gay. Gentlemen let those gorgeous tresses grow and exchange your Diesel jeans for a matted, grey worn out cardie and bad grrrls like me will love you forever, or at least until you have finished doing our homework for us.
                                                            Lady Emma Peel -- Friday February 16 2001, @09:51PM (#7964)
                                                            (User #2400 Info | http://www.heartlessbitches.com )
                                                             "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" Bette Davis
                                                              young portrait of Moz (Score:0)
                                                              Moz you wondering in front of the big sea
                                                              But that's because at that time
                                                              you didn't know who you are

                                                              You surprise to see Moz in now
                                                              So smile Moz of 19 years old!

                                                              I always remember you in my heart.
                                                              Anonymous -- Tuesday February 27 2001, @06:04PM (#8416)
                                                                This Charming Man (Score:1)
                                                                He is simply dashing...easily the most beautiful boy in the world.
                                                                glamorousglue -- Monday March 26 2001, @01:18AM (#9480)
                                                                (User #2203 Info)
                                                                  sad lovely criminal (Score:1)
                                                                  I can't believe that no one has noticed that this photo looks like a mug shot. He honestly looks a bit sinister, yet dastardly handsome. Think of the murderous duo Leopold and Loeb. He looks like their third partner in crime. But there is also an element of profound sadness there. The boy with the thorn in his side. The boy who rarely smiled. Morrissey should be arrested for being so damn poetically beautiful. He's too brilliant for this civilization, really.
                                                                  Down We Go Together -- Tuesday April 10 2001, @01:35AM (#9964)
                                                                  (User #2485 Info)
                                                                   Me, with a preference for making things worse...
                                                                    That photograph (Score:0)
                                                                    I have always known that from day one, all 'e has ever done was spunk on a vase of flowers in his bedroom. What a ravin' fukin pansy.

                                                                    Shaun william ryder
                                                                    Anonymous -- Wednesday May 16 2001, @01:16PM (#11247)
                                                                      i love him so much i cant stand it!!!! (Score:0)
                                                                      i have been listining 2 him since i was 9yrs old im 22 now and hell always be absolutley beautiful,no matter what age he is!!! i scratched his name on my arm with a fountain pen when i was 18,but have always loved him never the less!!!! singyourlife***
                                                                      Anonymous -- Friday June 15 2001, @08:49PM (#12957)
                                                                        He is daring (Score:0)
                                                                        He looks like Dorian Gray. I wish that all shy wonderful men were like Morrissey
                                                                        Anonymous -- Saturday June 23 2001, @12:40PM (#13389)

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