He looks so different with that hat on, infact I don't think I've ever seen him with a hat on, he actually looks freakishly like my Uncle in that photo, and very old.

God , i was like ...
where is morrissey
after a 3rd scan
i figured out it was him
on the left side, right ?

markmustb1

I think Morrissey looks swell in that photo. I think he has the charm of Tobey Maguire and the elegance of The Style Council.

I always imagined having tea with Morrissey, and that photo comes close to my dream.

Anyway, I am tired of seeing Morrissey in a suit (even if it is from a GQ photo shoot)- I can't distinguish Brandon Flowers from Morrissey when they both suit up.

That Maladjusted cover wasn't terrible, either.

He will always be handsome, and always cool. And the glasses are *so* James Dean (from his basketball days)-

With love,

Ken Stavitzke

This is not news. Alot of folks spotted Morrissey in a flatcap when he toured the UK last year. Even Morrissey needs a day-off from grooming his hair. I thought he looked spiffy.

So he supports businesses in Manchester by shopping there. Why would anyone fault him for that? Even he admitted in an interview that the city has changed.

Retail therapy, indeed.

Oh dear, whatever happened to the svelte, handsome and charming young man with the high head of full brown hair? Sorry to say but mozza looks dreadful - old, gaunt, tired and frumpy. Hang the stylist indeed!

what is the word for someone OPPOSITE of a pedophile??

i guess that's me then...

"hang the stylist...", so stupid.

somehow i dont think moz wanted to be noticed. good for him.

stop being so harsh. Every person with a bad lighting can look dreadful. I'm sure it's just a bad photo angle and nothing more.

He's 46.

Do you want him to go and get plastic surgery like Simon Le Bon?

I think we have to face the fact that Morrissey is getting older - and will carry on doing so! Certainly, in the 'Sun' photo he is hardly recognisable when compared to the 'handsome devil' of the 'Vauxhall and I' cover. But then, so what? Morrissey will not get any younger. What counts is the music he makes in his twilight years - and I seriously hope he DOES continue to make music into old age, as I think his ruminations on the fading of the light could be spectacular. Not that he's anywhere near there yet - he's got a good few years of middle age yet, but I just hope he carries on making music for as long as he can. There's so much he can do! Forget the Moz of The Smiths - he is gone. Even the Moz of 'November Spawned A Monster' is gone. The 'current' and 'future' Moz could make some wonderful, reflective albums if he pulls his finger out and doesn't rest on his laurels (as he did on 'YATQ', sadly)

If you look at a photo of Bob Dylan now, a gaunt, wrinkled old man has replaced the wiry beatnik of yore, and yet in 'Time Out Of Mind' and 'Love And Theft' especially, he is making glorious music.

Likewise, the great J Cash - a white-haired, withered wheelchair-bound spectre for his final five years, but that didn't stop him from delivering music of such skyscraping calibre as 'Hurt', 'The Man Comes Around' and 'The Mercy Seat'.

John Cale and Nick Cave are also excellent examples of older artists who are still thriving creatively. And Springsteen to - I believe he will go the stripped down acoustic bluesy route as he enters his late 50s/60s (the 'Devils And Dust' tour certainly indicates this - the acoustic versions of 'I'm On Fire' and 'Brilliant Disguise' are fab!) and I also think that stripped down Springsteen could be spectacular.

As always, the music is everything. Moz can still look distinguised in the right light, but gone are the days when he can be seen as the epitome of youthful outsiderdom. And so what? I believe he will make some of his very best albums in his twilight years if he cares to do so. Eventually, the wounds of the court case will subside - I think his reflections on a life lived and growing older will be fascinating, I really do. So let's hope he carries on making records to the end and really does become the 'alternative Sinatra'. He does need new musicians and producers though - or, at the very least, he needs Boz and Alain to supply new ideas!

Viva Morrissey!

FAir enough, Morrissey wants to do a bit of shopping in The City Centre. The Sun always try and get the worst ever photos and angles of the people they spot - and then come up with a stupid storyline like this. I wouldn't expect Morrissey to go to the shops in a suit and with his quiff up. How many times has there been stories about somebodys (famous) bad skin, spots, greasy hair or sweaty armpits??!!

How many times are they going to continue to mis-quote Heaven Knows... and Panic in an effort to be witty? This seems to happen in every article about Moz.
It's becoming quite boring.... as boring as being surprised that someone looks older than they used to.

Is there anyone else who thinks compared to that "Tiger Army" picture and the "Pink Shirt" photo this is actually a very nice post-46th-birthday picture of our Moz? I thought he looked a bit unhealthy and bedraggled in those other two, but this one seems to reassure me that he's in somewhat good health (not that my opinion means much in the grand scheme).

Tabloids are all the same, aren't they -- ready to jump on a person for aging as if it were a crime. Its no wonder plastic sergeons thrive. Anyway, even if he was just Steven Morrissey the librarian I'd say he was a terribly handsome man nonetheless.

So many cynics. I think he looks quite dapper.

pretty cool pic i'd say. northern dog-breeder meets florida golfer. it recalls several drab outfits he's worn on tv docs. but nothing quite hides the magic. i spotted him in around '91 in knightsbridge, 'hiding' under his wide-brimmed hat. it might have worked on people who wouldn't recognise him anyway, but his eyes were so piercing from under the brim that he was unmistakeable.

poor moz though - every tabloid story starts with 'heaven knows he's miserable now', which sums them up: all they do is celebrate other people's misery (real or invented), and truly miserable people buy them. it's good that he still provokes the sun's mockery. they've been on his case since 'suffer little children'.

of the camera eye... yes, cameras, especially when you aren't 19 any longer, can build or destroy your face - especially with the extra help of excessive sunlight, lips that are pursed, eyes tightened to avoid the sun...with an aging hat as cherry on the top for the tabloid-style magisines, you know, those made for people who can't understand beauty, sensuality as something coming from within. This kind of beauty has always been Morrissey's less than usual case: even in the days when he was so skinny a breeze could knock him over, he brilliantly exhaled this kind of beauty. In ancient as well as in actual pictures, his beauty always faught against and won over esthetic constraints. It takes no more than a look at a shot taken a year ago to confirm this, when, during the opening of "Jack the Ripper", he opens his arms and lowers his face, and that is one of the most magnetic shots ever taken from him. His sensuality (beauty) is highly emotional, and that comes to prove that beauty has, even despite him being vain (or having been so), no direct link with age or physique, even if his did help. Otherwise, you couldn't explain why those fans still try their jump on the stage to come closer to this magnetism. In ancient Greece, Sappho, a woman poet, who apparently was short and who slightly limped, had countless adorers, men and women, young and old, at her feet. Her songs had the same aura of lashing sensuality and cutting humanism Morrissey's has. Nevertheless, at 50, even when a young harper pursued her, she was still disgusted with her aged body. Yes, it is sad bodily beauty fades and abandons ardent people, but these same people continue to have that strange power to seduce the masses.

I'll bet you Morrissey can be a bag of wrinkles within a 10 years'time (although highly unlikely) but he will have that "love that is like a needle in the eye". Not even he can help it...it's under the skin, eg. in his body posture, his voice, his gaze,...

ps: who said 46 is (that?) old by the way? I hate to think what 66 looks like in the tabloid eyes - mummys or decayed walking corpses...boo!

   

I hate to remind you all of this, but the man we lovingly refer to as Morrissey is a 46 year old Irish man (Yes I know he was born in Manchester, of Irish parents [my uncle was his dad's Best Man btw...happy to share photos over a Guiness Moz!] but to the majority of the Irish community that makes him Irish [no matter what he thinks about the nationality of his heart]).

If you would like to "Benchmark" him, do not benchmark against his teenage years, but pop into any Irish Club on any given night any ask the 46 year old male customers to make themselves known to you. THEN COMPARE!

Out of interest, has anyone observed U2 recently? There!

Always true to you (and the offer of the Guiness still stands mate....I'll even pay!)

I almost choked on my own saliva! He looks even more awful than I do. Hang the stylist indeed.

what is wrong with you people?!!! he looks smashing! this cap looks great on him, in fact, he should hide the quiff (it's not what it used to be) with a cap any time.

fashion victim

He is not Morrissey, he is my neighbour Mr Laurent from France!

We really can't expect him to stay the same as he was in 84/85 - can we? I mean, wouldn't it be a little scary to see a 46 year old man running around with a bush hanging out of his jeans and an unnaturally high quiff flopping in the breeze?

He looks his age, acts his age, and seem to be reasonably happy. What's the matter that? :) We should be happy for him!

Come on, we are assuming this is an insult, but Jim Bowen is a legend!

Could this be the look Morrissey was actually after? I'd like to think he was a massive fan of Bullseye.

"Come on, lets 'ave a look at what you could've won!" Classic!

Stop comparing the man to his younger self!!! He's brilliant, and that has nothing to do with his looks. He has a sexy voice, and that has nothing to do with his looks either!! Let's just hope he continues to write and sing.

BTW, he still looks fabulous.

I can imagine him wearing white Adidas with blue stripes matching that cap.

So our Dionysus is aging along with the rest of us.

Personally, I find Moz to be more intriguing in these later years. It is hard enough to age gracefully, but how much harder when you personify youth and beauty? Now is the time in a career when you find out what an artist is made of. When I listen to Quarry, I hear a man whose blood still boils, who is still vital and whose voice is at its most compelling. Beauty fades, but genius is eternal.

He is still the most glamorus man on the planet, in the truest sense of the word!

       

Can I distract everyone for a moment with some random titbits? I was required to go to Bath, England last week for training etc, and at Bristol airport, while waiting for a taxi, the song-writer/guitarist from Jack L., a decent Irish cabaret/pop band, joined me to the same venue, recalling a brief encounter with Morrissey who was accompanied by his friendly solicitor, at the 1998 Hot Press Awards in Belfast. May you be involved in a court-case where you are in the right!, is a Yiddish curse according to an essay in a book by David Mamet that I brought with me, in which he also reveals the source of the word Lollapolooza, as per the cancelled Indie festival Morrissey was supposed to headline last year. It’s a gambling term for an Old Cat, someone who cannily plays all the odds using all available resources, rather than strictly by the rules of the game, in a 1955 book by M. MacDougall: “Gamblers don’t Gamble”.

A few days later I met Aled, the sound engineer behind Aziz Ibrahim’s album “Longsight to Lahore”, produced a few years back in Manchester I think, which included collaborators Paul Wellar, and Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke.

I did get to see the Roman baths, with its inscriptions in a font like Morrissey uses, and went on a hilarious guided walk ‘Bizarre Bath’ that I’d recommend. I also came across a bargain book called “The Power of the Pendulum” which mentions Dr Raudive, who released that record of dead people from which Morrissey borrowed. Since the cricket rumour, I liked the thought of sharing the same land-mass as Moz for a few days, and it’s some evidence for the 7 degrees of separation theory. I hope he enjoys the Northern grey skies and familiar folk, with his distinguished look, paying no heed to begrudging media pests. There may be ‘a place for everyone in The Sun who has the will to chase one’ but unfortunately there seems to be a place even for people who don’t as well!

"And when he took to the stage with a thistle hanging from his crotch instead of a thorn in his side the crowd knew they were about to witness something special.

And watching this genius at work was a pleasure to behold and a stark reminder of just how bland and unimaginative the music industry has become..."

This british newspaper is just trash to wipe the ass...

Sonnet 83
"I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life, and bring a tomb.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in praise devise."

Also I wonder if Morrissey was inspired for the opening lines of “Shoplifters..” by a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning that starts “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Dunno if she was a kleptomaniac or not though!

I know how he looks to me forever.

You are beautiful Morrissey and you know how.

That is not YOU believe me, I'm sure you know anyway; but you are just sublime, in case you needed reminding.

Oh this wicked world. The Camera does lie more than you would ever know.

LLLOVE FOREVER

Worthless I know, but sincerely meant nonetheless.

Honest X

I hope I look as good as Morrissey does when I'm forty-something.
The vegetarian diet does him good. He looks healthy.

I think Morrissey looks divine I want one for myself!

This website is so like a newspaper!!!

you're all, like, he looks great for his age, blah, blah... he's only 46!!! it's not like he's in his 70s for crying out loud!

I think he looks adorable! I keep reading references to cologne though, and I'm quite allergic. Not that that'll be a deterrent when I meet him someday.

I think Morrissey looked lovely in that photo.It just goes to show how shallow some people are.I think Morrissey is beautiful and I always will.I am not just talking about his looks(though I think he`s incredibly handsome)I am also talking about his beautiful heart and soul.Only Morrissey could write such beautiful songs because he does have a lovely heart and soul.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.
I've seen his.
I LOVE YOU MORRISSEY
FOREVERMORE X

Did you recognized that Moz is having a ring in HIS LEFT RING FINGER!

Take a look at this picture again...

Moz said, long ago, that if he got to 50, it would "imply a lack of resolve, or something".

Ha!

(LOVE YOU MOZZER) :p

this don't look like him, or at least it don't look like the man I used to love. Which only saddens me.

There has been many times in which I will throw on a hat and jeans and go out. If someone were to take a picture of me, it probably would be a bad representation. Then there is times when I I'm going out and I make myself look dashing.

I don't understand the fascination with all the fans here that have a hard time with Morrissey growing old. Last time I checked we all are growing old. That’s life, deal with it. I wonder how well most of you are going to look when you reach Morrissey's age?

Just a question here but, having glanced at the full length profile of Moz larging it in the Manchester shopping centre, is that a ring like thing on this left hand, on, ...you know, the important finger, or it is just the quality of The Sun's printing these days? Then again, sure the keen-eyed journo who thought this was a ground-breaking scoop would have noticed that.

Look at his left ring finger in this picture!

He'd have a vagina (Thats the medical term)

He's been there, done that. He was a girl, in a past life. (Remember his Sandie Shaw quotes?) anyway, I think he is the perfect blend of male and female; the perfect specimen of a many-times-incarnated-being, wielding talents and charms honed over many lifetimes.