Wouldn’t it be fun for Morrissey to cover an Elvis song at a concert, with a few simulated gestures etc? Sometimes he bears a striking resemblance to him, like his father did to George Best. Or maybe a short operatic aria, or a Johny Rotton outburst, whatever he digs off-duty?! Apparently he’d be a natural! –

Johnny Rogan recounts Morrissey’s performance in a 1969 school nativity play revealing his early film star-like traits!: “Chris Lukes [classmate] had already secured what he assumed was the plum part – narrating the play from the sidelines in his finest reading voice. He hardly expected to be upstaged, least of all by Steven Morrissey, who had been cast as dull, old Joseph. During rehearsals, however, Morrissey astonished the class by his capacity to ad lib. While [his close classmate] Kathleen Geoghan luxuriated in her role as Joseph’s pregnant, virgin wife Mary, Morrissey fawned over her with such amusingly-inappropriate lines as, “Sit down, love, and put your feet up!” It was Morrissey’s peculiar achievement to transform the nativity play with naturalistic dialogue more suited to a kitchen-sink drama. On the day of the performance, he was relaxed and confident enough to repeat his rehearsal triumph and charmed the audience with his unselfconscious paternal kindheartedness. As Lukes acknowledged, “He was very good, very funny, and I felt a bit envious because I had to read from a set text”.

I love 'You Are The Quarry'. I don't know why people think Moz needs to change his style, because he did with this record. His voice is gorgeous, like the legends he's always admired, and his lyrics are delivered with the kind of cynical snarl that wasn't present in the pleading tones on his other albums ... and IBEH and FOTGTD just rock; I never thought Moz could hit us with songs like those.
That album stands out as his best alongside Vauxhall in my opinion.
Fair enough if someone genuinely dislikes an album, but I reckon some people just bristle at Quarry's commercial appeal and critical acclaim; after all, he's back and he's become 'popular' Morrissey now. Sometimes I think some fans would've been happy to see him just rehash his old stuff live for the next 10yrs, gradually growing more and more reclusive, until, Norma Desmond like, he'd only ever be sighted peering fearfully from behind flowery curtains at the fans gathered on his lawn, rattling around in his mansion, a bitter and lonely old drunk, sobbing into his pillow.
Some fans can't take the fact that he's happy for once.
Let's hope the new album rocks as much as Quarry did.