Can anyone confirm?

one more highlight for mr moz. from his latest work he truly has been shining of late. with the commencing of a new album, he has some hope and some despair that there are some other sane people in this world, not just us morrissey fans!

Wasn't he there to collect the award?

This is great for Morrissey, and Bacharach is a deserving winner (plus Ireland's own Damien Rice!)

But I have mixed feelings about Simon Cowell. In his interview with NME last year, Morrissey was indirectly rather scathing of his main activities:

“NME: One of the songs on 'You Are The Quarry' is 'The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores'. Name five.
Morrissey: "I could name 505, but that's not the point. Let's just say the world is full of crashing bores. They know who they are, particularly within music."

Are you alluding to 'Pop Idol'?
"It's the entire culture of so-called pop music and the assumption that all you have to do is stand there and smile and you're a pop idol. (Sighs in disgust) They are the aspects of modern society that scare me to death. They're worse than terrorists."

Why? Because they have more impact on ordinary people's lives?
"No, because they're idiots. It's just the hideous process of wheeling them on, stripping them down and throwing them off. It's just so degrading and sad, really. You do actually feel pity for them, and you can only shudder at the working mind of the young people who enter the competition."

Do you think there's an element of sadism in popular culture now that wasn't there before?
"Definitely. And that is because people will do anything for fame."

Did you always want to be famous or did you just want to express yourself?
"No, I certainly wanted to be famous."

Would you now if you were starting again?
"Well, I think when I was a child, more than anything else I wanted not to be ordinary. And I wanted to be considered to be a bit peculiar. When I was at school I wanted to be peculiar and I was delighted when I was at secondary school and I was actually thought to be peculiar (laughs). It was fantastically good for me because I looked around me and I thought, 'Well, however you are I don't want to be like you, so if you think I'm unbalanced then I'm delighted.' That really stayed with me."

However he’d be supportive of this other aspect:
“Contestants on the new season of American Idol would be well advised not to wear any fur now that judge Simon Cowell is the newest voice in PETA’s anti-fur campaign. A smiling Cowell appears in a new PETA ad holding a dog and saying, “If you wouldn’t wear your dog, please don’t wear any fur.”

Cowell wants consumers to know that each fur coat, collar, or cuff means that animals have been cruelly trapped, drowned, or beaten to death in the wild or gassed, strangled, or electrocuted on fur farms. Fur is a relic of prehistoric times, when it was the only thing to keep primitive people from freezing, whereas today’s lightweight synthetics, such as Gore-Tex, are much more versatile and efficient at keeping people warm. Faux fur or no fur is what’s in tune with current concerns about treating animals with respect.

Charlize Theron appeared in a similar ad displayed on a billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and ER star Goran Visnjic shot an anti-fur ad for PETA that appeared in numerous magazines in the U.S. and on billboards in his native Croatia.

For more information, visit FurIsDead.com or watch our undercover fur-farm investigation narrated by Stella McCartney.”

I always thought that GQ stood for Great Queer.
Now it is confirmed

I couldn't help noticing one section on the GQ website for jokes. Here is one!

On his first day in rock heaven, Johnny Cash is shown around by Jimi Hendrix. They see Janis Joplin swimming in Southern Comfort, Elvis making fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches and Jim Morrison composing poetry. Cash decides he's going to like it here. In the next room they see U2's Bono admiring himself in a mirror.
"Wait," falters Cash, "Bono's not dead yet!"
"No, no, no," says Hendrix, that's God, he just thinks he's Bono!"

Bless his heart. Though why 2005's Man of the Year? Surely he did more in 2004.
It's a bit of a weird list too; who's Mylo? But it must make him smile to know that he's won alongside Charlotte Church.
In your munchkin face James Blunt.

http://www.lnreview.co.uk/music/005228.php

Discussing me.

Now voting too!!

Man of the Year (two thousand and five)? Not bad for someone who's done nothing all year! Or have I missed something? Still, he certainly beats the competition so I ain't complaining....

"The X Factor’s Simon Cowell was named top TV personality" Granted he's occasionally funny but its a sad era for tv if he's the BEST personality!

........someone keeps posting the same review of events relating to Morrissey all over the site! Brilliant idea, but you would think they might change the words at times?

I think you should maybe only moderate up the first 3 perhaps and then wait for the next exciting instalment!

nice to see your volcabulary has improved somewhat.
as for your request, meet me in the alley by the railway station.