HAHA!

are people really that bored that theyd complain about a gun in a poster???

a complaint came from the UK and not the US!? i guess they should have released the "censored" version over yonder as well.

I well and truly do think that Morrissey should've been "done" on this one!! (joke)
What a LOAD of rubbish! How about censoring all the homo-phobic gun worshipping R'n'B artists first? This is the man who used to swing gladioli around in the early days for God's sake! Like Morrissey said recently: the only thing he has not been accused of (yet) is murder. What's next?

The new U2 album makes no reference whatsoever to the dismantling of any sort of bomb, nevermind the Atomic variety that the title suggests the listener will be able to dismantle! Have I got a case?

Dear Jim,

Morrissey ought to be ashamed for brandishing that gun like that on his album cover.

Signed,

Jayson Williams, 'Beretta', and Phil Spector

Well clones, it was only a matter of time before some freak would crawl out of the rock to protest Moz's album cover. Just like those people who complain about violence on t.v. this person is looking to blame the world's problems on album covers. I don't think it's part of Morrissey's m.o. to go around with a tommy gun and hold people up.

So if he was wearing his Gucci priest jacket instead of the pinstripes it would have been deemed as "a glorification of gun crime or violence"? If Moz was likely to bust a Jayson Williams and shoot his limo driver in the back, i'm sure he would have done it to all those stalkers invading his front yard. Hell, i'm surprised he hasn't already. You have nothing to worry about, Moz isn't going to harm anyone nor is he 'glorifying' violence. What's the matter? Did 'I Have Forgiven Jesus' rub you the wrong way? Or, did you see Moz backstage and get snubbed? 'Violence' or 'glorification' of it in t.v., music, video games, isn't a reason to whine. Whatever the case, let the man hold his gun and let me hold my joystick.

OUT

the Tommy gun is a reference to the good old New York Dolls 'Lipstick Killers', from the films of Bob Gruen. I've said it before, so I may as well say it again.

From
www.geocities.com/costelt/smithsmoz/NYDolls/nydolls.htm

page 11:
"The Dolls had planned a series of concerts in the UK for July of 1974, including dates at Glasgow, Buxton and London. The actual dates were announced, but the group had to pull out at the last minute due to visa difficulties. Instead they went to Hollywood to make a film, 'Hey Good Lookin'', for Warner Brothers. Exactly how the film came about is uncertain. It was a live action and animated 5-'s caper about The Amboy Dukes, 'the toughest band ever to come out of Brooklyn'. It featured a collection of dwarves, and the Dolls alternated between their usual regalia and gangster garb. 'Hey Good Lookin'' was never to be released and now remains in the Warners vaults."

I am sure when "Jesus" is released as a single he will be accussed of blashemy and spoiling people's christmas.
Isn't it great that we still have a truly original and living (I know you hate me saying this) pop-star? Somebody who doesn't release endless remixes, somebody who still has got something to say, who releases great b-sides and somebody who isn't kissing the a*** of the well and truly corrupt music industry.
Morrissey, please do not retire yet.

no way!
surely the blame for gun violence should be placed on the posters for Swervedriver's "Duel"!

what a stupid bitch

.... 'Guns don't kill people........ Bullets do.'

of when the Anti Arab Defamation League complained about Killing An Arab by the Cure. there was a great parody called Killing A Carrot that followed.

Standing on the farm with a hoe in my hand, staring at the skying, staring at the land ....

This is just another example of how so many people nowadays try very hard to find things to get offended by.

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Objection to a poster for the album "You are the Quarry" by Morrissey. The poster featured a photograph of Morrissey, wearing a suit and holding an old-fashioned ''tommy gun''. The complainant, who saw the poster in an area of Manchester that he believed had high levels of gun crime, objected that the advertisement was irresponsible because it glamorised firearms.
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Yeah, just another PC anti-gun idiot who wants to trample on freedom of speech.

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Adjudication:
Complaint not upheld
The advertisers said they had not intended to offend and regretted any offence their advertisement had caused. They believed, however, that the poster did not glamorise or condone violence, whether associated with firearms or not.
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Well. Of course it DOES glamorize violence. But so what? Why should it be illegal to make a poster?

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The advertisers said the poster had been influenced by a famous Second World War propaganda photograph of Winston Churchill holding a tommy gun;
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This should've been in the news item on this site. I don't think anyone knew this was the inspiration for the pic before. David, you cut out the real NEWS in this news item!

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they maintained that the use of an old-fashioned firearm in the advertisement would lead most people to realise that the advertisement harked back to past times rather than provoking gun crime in the present.
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That's obviously true. Don't know why they have to defend themselves though.

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They argued that the fact that the gun was not smoking, or pointing at the viewer, encouraged the conclusion that the poster did not support gun crime.
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I would hope it wouldn't make a difference where the gun was pointing, since I happen to believe in FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

The smoking thing...well obviously everyone's got the government cracking down on what the demonized "BIG TOBACCO" companies. I don't think it's right to ban advertising for a legal product, however.

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The Authority noted the gun in the advertisement was a 1920s submachine gun. It considered that that, and the fact that Morrissey was dressed in an old-fashioned pinstripe suit, meant the poster was likely to be seen as a reference to gangster films rather than as a glorification of gun crime or violence. The Authority did not object.
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Do you see how crazy the world is getting? I'm glad that the ruling went Sanctuary's way (seems like a no-brainer to me) however one still sees the MADNESS at work here from the nanny-state, squash free speech mentality. Having to argue over the type of SUIT Morrissey wears? Dear Lord! The picture is clearly not obscene or indecent in any way. It's a suave looking Morrissey weilding a cool Tommy gun. If the poster had hard core obscene pornography, then I'd see the need to crack down. Or if it were indecent, then I'd say there should be restrictions on WHERE you can place the poster. But a dude in a suit with a gun? Why is this even an issue?

Look I love the Moz but I do have to say that seeing him holding a gun was the first...the very first...time I have questioned his choice. Art is art and I am no one to tell Moz what to do but I thought the very nature of a firearm like that (made only to kill humans and cause suffering) was against eberything Morrissey stood for. I do understand it was more the nostalgic gangster chic he was after but still....
Ahh.....I shouldn't have posted this. I do love the Moz and this is a small thing but please Moz if you read this think twice about glamourizing guns. You don't have to be pro or anti. Of course Morrissey could put a severed head on his album cover and I woud still buy it because the man walks on water. Truly.

if government agencies in the UK work in the same way that they do in the US, then basically every letter that gets sent in, regardless if the subject is "i'm convinced that aliens from Pluto conspired with the Mormons to create Tofu Burgers" or something of legitimate concern that affects the living, is actually researched and responded to.

and as you can see by the two paragraph response, somebody spent roughly 10 minutes on it because they knew their time was being wasted. i can almost see the person who made the phone call to Sanctuary rolling their eyes as they dialed the number, and upon getting an answer, they said, "hey, i'm just doing my job, but..."

Well, the CD cover is not entirely my cup of tea - I like the cover of "Let Me Kiss You" much more - but one shouldn't act like Morrissey's lyrics are free of violent imagery. In fact, his songs are littered with it. "Girlfriend in a Coma", "Alsatian Cousin", "Sorrow Will Come In the End", etc. much much more. Sometimes the violence is done by others, othertimes the general ill will and anger is expressed by him.

He's a harmless chap though. And a CD cover doesn't change that.

remember when moz was on kilborn's show and kilborn asked him something about record company executives and moz's response was a gesture and sound that basically said that they should all be mowed down with a machine gun. that's what i thought of when i first saw the album cover and several songs on the album address the problems with the music industry as well. so, to me, the album cover represents moz's return to music and what he plans on doing to all of the posers out there. figuratively, not literally, of course.

Who was this "lady" from Manchester?
Maybe, Mrs. Mike Joyce?

I too object to the way Morrissey glorifies violence and guns.
I also disagree with the way he refers to his backing band as "my miscellaneous assorted niggaz".
Furthermore, I feel that Morrissey objectifies women when he encourages female fans to "pop them thangs" and says things like "if you gotta bigger booty, come on down and do your duty".

... and I wonder does anybody feel the same way I do?"

ive read a few of the comments here and ifind it amazing that people were so shocked to see Moz weilding a gun on the cover of '...Quarry'. Morrissey has never shyed away from violent imagery, and increasing over his career he has used it more often. even in the way he performs with the whipping of the microphone cord he conjures up feelings of violence. look at his lyrics over the years:

A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
Ambitious Outsiders
Ammunition
Asian Rut
Barbarism Begins At Home
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Boxers
The Boy Racer
Death At One's Elbow
Girlfriend In A Coma
Hand In Glove
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
The Headmaster Ritual
I Want The One I Can't Have
Is It Really So Strange?
Jack The Ripper
The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
The Lazy Sunbathers
Maladjusted
Margaret On The Guillotine
Meat Is Murder
Michael's Bones
The National Front Disco
The Operation
Reader Meet Author
Rusholme Ruffians
Sister, I'm A Poet
Speedway
Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference
Suedehead
Suffer Little Children
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Sweet And Tender Hooligan
The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils
That's Entertainment
This Is Not Your Country
Unhappy Birthday
We'll Let You Know

these are not the songs of a man who doubles over in disgust at the thought of violence; rather these are the songs of man who realizes the passion and excitement that comes with violence and can embrace it.

if for no other reason than the album cover is shit and it's lame holding a gun for no real reason.

take your pathetic pussy footed comments and shove in your hamburger!!!!!

Try again

Such complaints are much more likely to come from the reactionary, religious, right, where most of societies problems come from!