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Morrissey mention in the new Billy Fury biography
posted by davidt on Monday October 24 2005, @09:00AM

 Popside Aggro writes:
I have just finished Spencer Leigh's new Billy Fury biography, 'Wondrous Face' (published by Finbarr International) and was delighted to find a few Morrissey mentions. Most notably he transcribes an early Moz Smash Hits, where Morrissey describes Billy's self penned 'Sound of Fury' LP as 'a piece of my heart'. The author also comments, when appraising the single 'Maybe Tomorrow', 'The single set the tone for much of Billy Fury's work - a handsome guy having problems with his relationship. Fast forward 25 years and you have got Morrissey'.

Morrissey's love of Billy Fury is well documented and the similarities between the two of them uncanny at times; Billy became a recluse towards the end of his career, dedicating his life to animal welfare. He was constantly savaged by the critics and repeatedly misunderstood by the musical mainstream - tragically, he died aged 43, and is only now being seen as one of the most influential British performers of his generation, inspiring artists as diverse as John Lennon, Ian Dury and even the Pistols. If you want an insight into the twilight world of British pop, pre Beatles, that has so inspired Morrissey, then I can seriously recommend this book.

 
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Thanks.. (Score:0)
for the needless plug of your book, submitter
Anonymous -- Monday October 24 2005, @09:20AM (#182591)
Vaguely interesting...... (Score:0)
......... but where is the news on the new album? Wasn't production due to have finished pretty soon? Surely someone knows of a couple of the song titles at least.....

Hope the artwork is better this time!
Anonymous -- Monday October 24 2005, @11:47AM (#182625)
    Andy Ison has gone mad!!!! (Score:0)
    She is ruining the discussion board!
    HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP!!! H E L P!!!
    Anonymous -- Monday October 24 2005, @02:44PM (#182640)
      An old angle (Score:1)
      could there be an angle by which we could learn more about Morrissey - other than the (exhausted) one of establishing paralels between him and "clones" of him? He has already been compared in this site with so many characters that, if a person who is not acquainted with Morrissey visits this site, he or she might get an impression he is a collage, or a human mosaic. How about offering what makes Morrissey unique, different from his "peers" - and not eternally similar?

      He did build himself on his influences, but he is something more than a sum of pop music historical figures - and you can't fastforward Bill, or backforward Moz(to Oscar Wilde) and get a human being as a result.

      One of the things that makes him unique, for instance, I think, is that, contrarily to Elvis Presley or Jim Morrisson, Morrissey has had an amazing control over his sexual image, not letting his public persona become overly sexualized while giving free course to his sensuality at the same time.

      The "outsider's outsider" has also been (ironically? unwittingly?) embraced by nearly every category of human being in the human race. What articles can we read, or explore that illustrate this phenomena that is just Morrissey, and not anybody else?

      No intention to be snubbish here, but "God give me patience"...
      Mrs. Woolf -- Monday October 24 2005, @04:46PM (#182653)
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      Ho visto il morrissey !!!! (Score:0)
      Ho visto il morrissey alla fontana di trevi oggi con la sua banda, ha anche un dummer nuovo, Il produttore era lí il morrissey indossava una camicia
      viola & un braccialetto di mano strano & annerisce i jeans
      Anonymous -- Tuesday October 25 2005, @09:42AM (#182784)
      Morrissey spotted in a gay bar in Rome (Score:0)
      http://mondooltro.blogspot.com/2005/09/morrissey-w atch-vietato-ai-minori.html
      Anonymous -- Tuesday October 25 2005, @10:10AM (#182792)
      Down In Albion (Score:0)
      Babyshambles' "Down In Albion" is a fantastic album.

      Billy Fury couldn't have done better.

      Buy it on the 14th November.
      Anonymous -- Tuesday October 25 2005, @08:11PM (#182866)
        Billy Shakespeare! (Score:1)
        Goddard writes in “The Smiths” about the song “Shakespeare’s Sister”: “Another likely muse is an obscure 1962 Billy Fury B-side “Don’t Jump” – “I was standing at the edge of a cliff-top high above and I was looking right down below”, sings Fury, stricken with depression having just been jilted. Ethereal voices summon him to hurl himself where “the sea rushes in round the rugged rocks”, though ultimately he manages to repel his fatal urges”.

        Apparently such records were called death discs, and were not so rare before the Smiths came along.
        goinghome -- Wednesday October 26 2005, @10:59AM (#182971)
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