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posted by davidt
on Tuesday October 26 2004, @07:00AM
jtang sends the link:
Morrissey, Teen Chic
Excerpt:
Great pop is made by fans, and there is perhaps no greater fan than Morrissey. During his teenage years, the Smiths front man wrote dozens of letters to British music magazines like NME and Melody Maker praising (and trashing) bands in outsize, almost campy prose. This week, Morrissey extends his fan-boy résumé by releasing (and writing the liner notes for) Lonely Planet Boy, a compilation of the mostly out-of-print music of his childhood idols, the failed glam band Jobriath. Here are some excerpts from his letters to the editor, culled from Internet archives of Morrissey’s juvenilia...
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Well, how insightful of young Morrissey to notice that.
That's exactly what I heard when Tyler opened Game 1 of the World Series singing the National Anthem.
Whoh!