Mozzer seems to like his ice cream,

But this is the 1st pic or sleeve I've seen where he's showing his age.

sleeves have been much better than YATQ sleeves, especially 'You Have Killed Me', but 'Youngest' (beer bottle) and 'Future' have both had poor photographs. I favour a return to 'cover stars' - I just don't think he does himself any favours by appearing on every single sleeve, as he seems to have run out of great ways of presenting himself.

he looks like a drag queen in reverse drag

stop me and buy one. Hubba hubba! Yes, there are a few lines but show me just about anyone who isn't twelve who doesn't have those. He's a really wonderfully dabber, England old-style eccentric, and sexy in an extremely knowing way. Love him always. x

The audio clip doesn't give too much away about the b-side, but the piano sounds grand, very rhapsodic.

It's too bad it won't be released in North America though (or has that changed now?)

Beautiful sleeve, couldn't be more sponteanous. AS usual, the single Christian Dior is delightful enough for me, an anti-singles person (hate the marketing strategy), to buy it just because I can't go without that one song that just infused one more life into me. I am in the US, and itching to buy it ASAP with my Visa card. MOre, please!!

There is an unusual amount of studious relishing in that expression. A speech bubble could even read "Let me Kiss you!" It's quite a sensual and pleasing picture. Maybe the ice-cream has a special ingredient? Did you know there's such a thing as Guinness ice-cream? The recipe is a click away! (remove any spaces): http://icecreamireland.blogspot.com/2006/04/guinne ss-ice-cream.html

I see Morrissey hasn't lost his lyrical genius from the lyrics in the sample. Simply amazing! /sarc

How about they cut out a proper section of the song next time?

great sleeve but alas I can't play the B side preview. Maybe this will be the one I hear on my record player for the first time in ages before I hear it on the net, ah the good old days of getting home, turning on the stereo after a long bus trip to the record store, sitting back and turning it up!!!

i wish that was my cone.

The single and the B sides are great, and the cover show us a man with an incredible style even when he do such a little thing like taste an ice cream.. he'll never lost that look at his face, cold, arrogant and amazing.

The photo is good, but Moz looks a little older than he usually does (which I thought when I saw the YHKM cover taken on the same day). Still a good cover shot. He looks like an actor from a bygone era. But he looks younger and revitalised when he's on tour.

Christian Dior sounds great -- very wall-of-sound and dramatic. I take it it has nothing to do with Adam Ant's b-side (Boz being an Ant collaborator)?

"take the picture home... ice cream"

MOZ is a God.

with the glasses and the hearing aid has become quite distinguished, elegant, and ridiculously poised in middle-age.

He was an unlikely sex symbol then, and he remains so today.

Well done, Mozza - if you believe it, I'll believe it.

Yeesh. you never notice how saggy vegan's skin is?

Eph the cow's, eat some meat already!

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the mozkateer
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buy my cd, bitch!

i wonder why his face looks darker and older, but i love the ice ceam..is it a vanilla?

he looks old, in a vile and mean drag queen kinda way.

...Has aged badly. He's a very, very handsome man and by no means looks bad but the years lept upon him from his mid thirties.

I'd love to look like Moz does now, and I'm 29, but it's interesting how he has changed so dramatically. It was 12 short years ago that he did that iconic shoot for 'Q' magazine at the observatory in LA. That might seem like quite a while, but look at him then and look at him now - he's a different face.

The Morrissey Shot book by Linder, which was mostly shot in '91 is only fifteen years old. It really does look like thirty years have passed.

It's not a bad thing though! I love the greying, B-movic chic of 2006's Moz. I adore the way he looks. But it's strange how age really has gripped him. It's a very Irish-Mancunian thing. Now matter how much he spends on shampoo and lotions, he'd have looked that way had he continued on the dole. It's them genes.

I suppose the most important thing about this story is the preview of Christian Dior but I can't open it... As someone's already said beautifuly, it will be nice to take a new recording home on the bus and play it properly.

Oh Mozzer. You really are something.

That is the mouth of an old woman. Who forgot to put her teeth in.

I really rather like that (like all the sleeves, really) - he looks like he's thinking that the ice cream tastes funny. The little twist in the corner of his mouth says it all.

Well they say you get the face you deserve and that's why Morrissey still looks so beautiful.

Moz you are so gorgeous and so irresistible don't change a thing

I find it interesting when I read post stating that Moz look horribly old. When I read these remarks I can’t keep from wondering how old the people writing these posts are. If you’re in your twenties, then I understand you thinking he looks old. However, as the years pass I assure you your out look will change. If you’re in your thirties than you must know that he looks just fine. I am now 37 years old and still have all my hair and not over weight. However, this is rare for someone my age and older. I work in an office where most people are over 35. Most people Morrissey’s age don’t look half as good as he does. For those of you in your early twenties, how does Morrissey look compared to your parents? I would love to see what you guys and gals look like when you are in your late 40s.

Morrissey looks great.

Very phallic looking ice-cream don't you think. Moz lloking like he is going to enjoy getting his laughing gear round that one.

He is looking at that ice cream like he sees a spot on it...a fly in his ointment.

I could´t think in another best analogy

One cannot exceed British arrogance.

Even today the phrase "bloody foreigner" is used daily in England.
"Bloody" is the worst word in the English language
— it may never be used in polite company or in the presence of women, and it is never printed.

For the English, the foreigner is still a creature who is fundamentally different from those who are "British born" — or English.

Their sense of superiority includes the physical, character and moral. It goes back to the time when the Englishman Wellington, with

the critical help of the Prussian Blucher, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, after his hundred days of freedom following his escape

from Elba. Wellington became a national hero — the English do not remember Blücher and his soldiers. The victory was the seed of

English arrogance, for even today they believe that their victory proved once and for all where the true heroes and the real rulers of

Europe and the world are to be found. In politics, they developed the principle of the balance of forces in Europe, which to them

meant that England was chosen by God to keep or disturb the balance by eternal meddling.

In other areas as well their belief in their superiority led them to claim possess every conceivable virtue. They are the freest, most

humane, most truthful, most pure people, They are a nation of gentlemen, the inventors and sole exemplars of "fair play." They alone

have a sense of humor. They are sporting, respect the view of their opponents, are the best colonial masters of "lesser" peoples due

to their God-given gentleness, patience, calmness, goodness and strength. They have the best government, the happiest poor and the richest rich.

goinghome is a knob

Methinks he could just use a little "enhancing" surgery and it would take 10yrs off that lovely face without him looking freakish. I mean why not?

It's incredible how many people are afraid about ageing, the comments reflects that.. but again, Morrissey seems to don't care about the fears of the masses, his courage is so brilliant, and it can be seen in that great sleeve. Great sleeves for great B sides of a great album.

Why are most people here so perplexed by the fact that Morrissey is aging? What kind of fantasyland do you people live in? You do realize that each and every one of us is getting older, don't you? Brace yourself for you too will one day have gray hair and wrinkles!

Get a grip people! He's aging and that's life! I don't understand why it's even a topic of discussion. Is it that there's nothing better to discuss, or are you all really that shallow?

Looks like Moz is dredging up old Smiths art for inspiration. The old play on the kid with the ice cream. Another nail in the coffin of the man I revere.

it's an ice cream!?
I thought he was gingerly milking a cow

Criticising Morrissey is like shooting fish in a barrel, as is criticising anyone.
The same criticisms are rehashed again and again, virtually word for word, and have become as predictable as Manchester weather.
Anyone can go on any band/singers fansite and complain/criticise/insult the "artist", it really isn't rocket science.
These bitter characters think that the way they see things is undeniably true, and that everyone else is wrong, and fail to appreciate that it is simply THEY who have developed an irrational hostility towards someone who they feel has "betrayed" them in some way.
I know that many of the hate posts are deliberate attempts, by shrivelled individuals, to offend or upset genuine fans, but there are an equal amount from so-called "fans" or former admirers, who read the criticism and have their minds warped, leading to them making similar posts churning out the same tired, hackneyed and spiteful diatribes cataloguing Morrissey's "crimes"(such as having the audacity to grow older).
When are these people going to get it through their thick skulls that no one comes here to read their Mark Chapman-esque rantings?
Where are all the true fans?
Not on THIS site, that's for sure.

There is nothing wrong with showing your age. The problem is that he looks like a bitter old woman in that photo. Just as the sleeve for "Live at Earl's Court" added four chins to his face and in several other recent pictures he seems to have forgotten to put in his false teeth.
So - who is the imbecile choosing these horrible photos?

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are saying, "thank God those miserable fools are not fans of The Rolling Stones. No wonder why Morrissey is so depressed! With fans like those, who needs hecklers."

Would question the quality of the new single if J Marr was writing with him again.

Bring back Marr.

yum gelato

What's with that orange?
Same goes for photographer.
Unless there is some kind of a conceptual idea of him looking worse than he really is.

Having the chance to see Morrissey close-up off stage recently I can testify that he looks very good in real life and that image is just not flattering at all, though the idea behind it was interesting.

Christian Dior sounds intriguing, I'm wondering what the song is about though? The man, Christian Dior, himself perhaps? Somebody wearing a Christian Dior perfume? Probably none of the above. Just have to wait.

S.

I think that photo of Morrissey is so sexy.Morrissey is totally sexy.He looks so good.I could say more...

...wanted to be an ice cream. Each to their own, but he looks better to me now than he's ever done in the past.
I can't wait to go into a record shop and actually be thrilled to buy something; there's only Morrissey that holds that kind of power over me in music at the moment. Roll on August 21st.

He never ages in my eyes. ~ it's in the eyes..

This is not a good photo. He looks very old in this shot.

For a guy who's known for his relatively clean living, he certainly is showing everyone last one of those 47 years.

Gee he looks old alright. But he will never lose his charisma. And that's more precious than looks.

I am sure there are lots of more interesting things to talk about Morrissey than HIS AGE. HIS MUSIC PERHAPS. AND if you are a young fan.........PLEASE dont expect to see the same Morrissey from the 80's!Listen to his Music. Enjoy his music. And stop talking about stupid things. It makes me very angry to see these kind of comments. THIS IS FOR FANS ONLY! if you dont like what you see. Dont bother to write anything against him.

Ice Creasm????
Is Morrissey no longer a vegetarian?
Last time I knew, PETA was against the dairy industry.

Charming and Beautiful as ever...