I assume that Len copyrighted each interview at the time rather than the publication? Is this how things normally work. I assume Len was a freelancer rather than paid journo.

By the way nicely designed website. Cna i now have my free copy of the tome?

and sounds like an alright guy.

I'm not sure what further insight it could offer into Morrissey, or whether we need another analysis of well trodden ground but I may well pick this up for a look-see.

As for Q being crap, well it's something not to get too wound up about. It's about as relevant as the NME and serves to be a lifestyle magazine as opposed to a source of insight or information.

People tend to buy these it reinforce viewpoints they already hold, and the writers serve to ape the mentality of their audience. One insanely funny magazines in general have grown to have is to review new releases about a month prior to hitting the streets, await feedback from the general public (via forums like this no doubt) and then do a 'retrospective more complete' review about a month later which completely changes tack to mirror public opinion.

I'm looking at you Empire!

For Moz, in Q's eyes he will never extend beyond the 'pope of mope' stereotype. Screw 'em.

You did not answer my mail.
No time to lose with a nobody, probably?

.where can the text of this hawtrey obit be found?

and I'm really looking forward to reading the book.

But why the persistence with the "celibacy" issue? Isn't Jake discussed? Or the (homo)erotic appeal of young latino men...? Or even the LYRICS....???

sorry but Quantick can never be maligned enough in my book. He's a smirking, unfunny cunt.

Like the 'new' NME, Q is a shadow of its former self, stuffed full of scanty reviews and news items which read more like soundbites than proper journalism.

Thank goodness we still have journalists like Mr Brown, who remind us of the high standards of investigation and graceful, probing, insightful writing UK music journalism is still capable of producing.

Don't take the review too much to heart, Len. You're one of the good ones!

Good luck with the book/website!

Len, your problem is that you don't come to the conclusion that Q mag and the like have decided is the "right" one, that Morrissey is an evil racist.

I really want to read book,if someone knows to morrissey for 20 years,ok. I could not read someone who scarcely knows him . analysis is good, it doesn´t question about racism. the question is exists a British culture ? Globalization has not finished it

Mr. Brown, I quite liked the interviews I read of you with Morrissey online and they inspired me to read Oscar Wilde, too. I have not got far in reading Oscar Wilde yet, but can see the way he was thinking and writing and the parallels to what Morrissey is doing, too. I ordered your book, which will hopefully get here tomorrow. It will be interesting to read your thoughts and cross check them with mine.

Back in the mid 90s, Q was actually a pretty decent magazine. They had a particular style of wit which I really liked, and Morrissey appeared on the cover the few times between 1992 and 1996. I remember Q being one of the new magazines to give "Southpaw Grammar" a decent review at the time.

Now, of course, it's mainstream pop rubbish. But let's not forget, they put Suede on the cover before they'd even released an album.