Glowing review of the Morrissey documentary by Jim Shelley in The Mirror today (10.6.03)

http://www.i-dmagazine.com/i_collect/i_collect.php?id=233

Seen as Morrissey shares the cover honours (2 cover stars, one on either side of the mag) with Chloe Sevigny we should remind ourselves why this can only be a good thing!
Taken from an old link on her it refers to a book called 'Star Tunes' by Michael Friedman. It's a list of various famous people's favorite ten albums. Chloe Sevigny's list is as follows:

1) Smiths - Smiths
2) Smiths - Meat is Murder
3) Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
4) Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
5) Smiths - Rank
6) Smiths - Queen is Dead
7) Morrissey - Viva Hate
8) Morrissey - Bona Drag
9) Dirty Three - Ocean Song
10) Nico - Marble Index

I am 'officially' in love, you heard it here first, some good ole' yorshire lovin' is all she needs now, guess she best take cover....i'll be right over!

thanks for coming,
Kes x

The interview is NOT post documentary airing. Think his comments about it might be a little different now.

but wasn't allowed. It would have been his 16th track. Of course he says it's his most favourite of all...

It was used on the intro tape on the last tour though.

possibly one of the best ever. Really witty, really sharp, really positive and not just covering the same old ground.
Moz rightfully v unhappy about the 'Importance of Being' complaining that they missed out all the interesting bits and just banged on about courtcase, homo-eroticism, vegetarians, racism etc.

He says his favourite Smith song is the 'Boy With A Thorn' which he's never said before (has he?). I belive that song to be the best one on the history of music.
JS,E

I just bought it today and I'd recommend anyone who hasn't picked up a copy yet to do so, the Morrissey interview is great and, as earlier messages indicated, the whole magazine is full of Smiths/ Morrissey references including an interview with the lovely Chloe Sevigny in which she mentions her love of all things Morrissey. She says: "Morrissey, of course, is my ultimate. I listen to a lot of Morrissey. My friend just made me this compilation video of all the nights he was on.. what's that late show? He played his new song, The First of the Gang to Die (sharp intake of breath) Soooo good....I LOVE HIM! I can't wait to see him play again."
Her interviewer, the photographer Terry Richardson replies "I'd love to shoot him."
The Morrissey interview on the back page has some real gems too, including information on his favourite labels, he says: "I'm generally 60 percent Dries Van Noten, 40 percent Helmut Lang."
The interviewer asks him what he makes of "fashion's current Smiths obsession" and his reply: "The Smiths were the worst dressed group in the history of cloth. I can't imagine how that would inspire anybody."
A treat. Buy it!

Lucky x

Benton posted a scan of the interview here [morrissey-solo.com]

Thanks Benton

I just found a copy of the Nathan Abshire song that Morrissey mentions in this interview...sounds a bit like the Sundown Playboys track...very odd...a peculiarity!

... ANYWHERE today. And boy did I look.

On his proudest moment with the Smiths: 'it was Meat Is Murder being the first Rough Trade number one, because it was in the days when Rough Trades distribution was Geoff Travis and his auntie flogging albums from a van parked just off Ladbroke Grove.' Hilarious!