Morrissey on the cover of new book "The History of the NME" by Pat Long

I'm sure he is thrilled

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Description from Amazon.co.uk:

'The NME mattered to all those generations who grew up with music at the centre of their universe. The NME never had a truer chronicler than Pat Long.' Tony Parsons Since it was founded in 1952, the New Musical Express has played a central part in the British love affair with pop music. Snotty, confrontational, enthusiastic, sarcastic: the NME landing on the doormat every Wednesday was the high point of any music fan's week, whether they were listening to The Beatles, Bowie or Blur. The Sex Pistols sang about it, Nick Hornby claims he regrets not working for it and a whole host of household names - Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill, Nick Kent and Mick Farren, Steve Lamacq and Stuart Maconie - started their career writing for it. This authoritative history, written by former assistant editor, Pat Long, is an insider's account of the high times and low lives of the world's most famous, and most influential, music magazine. The fights, the bands, the brawls, the haircuts, the egos and much more. This is the definitive - and first - book about the infamous NME. Word count: 85,000
 
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Wow, hot-off-the-press.
And in other news, Morrissey's new album will be called "Vauxhall & I"...
 
Might be quite good. "The NME mattered..." is a nice use of the past tense.
 
I am definitely interested in reading this. I think Morrissey would be pleased to be included on the cover. He is one of three important faces on the cover, it shows how significant he is. I think one of the most important things to Morrissey is his significance in musical history. I think they got this cover right! :thumb:
 
I am definitely interested in reading this. I think Morrissey would be pleased to be included on the cover. He is one of three important faces on the cover, it shows how significant he is. I think one of the most important things to Morrissey is his significance in musical history. I think they got this cover right! :thumb:

He may have had his issues with them, but this has got to be considered a triumph for Morrissey. As you stated, of all the faces they could use to represent the most important music of our time, Morrissey is deemed to be one of the most iconic. This is perfect; but of course, we already knew how valuable he is.

lynnda
 
burn it rather than buy it, the ENeMey complety destroyed Morrissey's status by delibarately making a
their issue about his Madstock only 1 date, which he ended early, think I don't need to tell the reason

the stories are still available for reading at Comtesse Despair's exelent archieve

the ENeMey has Always been a source for attacking Morrissey, even they supported his Quarry time and 50th Bithday gig, but the last
we heard was they had to apologize for something they wrote about Morrissey.

don't buy it,
 
burn it rather than buy it, the ENeMey complety destroyed Morrissey's status by delibarately making a
their issue about his Madstock only 1 date, which he ended early, think I don't need to tell the reason

the stories are still available for reading at Comtesse Despair's exelent archieve

the ENeMey has Always been a source for attacking Morrissey, even they supported his Quarry time and 50th Bithday gig, but the last
we heard was they had to apologize for something they wrote about Morrissey.

don't buy it,

There's no doubt Morrissey was stitched up by the Steven Wells's era NME, already suspicious of him ever since the "reggae is vile" comment. Panic's "Hang The DJ" refrain was portrayed as a direct assault on (black) dance music, and of course Bengali In Platforms and The National Front Disco hardly helped. Nor did Morrissey's apparent attraction to the worlds of both boxing and football hooliganism.

Steven Wells died four years ago next month. Good.

The great irony of Madstock is that Morrissey wrapping himself in the flag was considered the final proof of his racism, yet within five years Britpop in general and Oasis and the Spice Girls in particular were lauded by the national press for doing much the same thing.

The hypocrisy of some of the others attacking him was pretty startling too. Few people have made quite as much money recently on the back of English nationalist imagery as Billy Bragg, but my absolute favourite was Siouxsie Sioux. This is a woman [citation needed] who spent much of the late seventies following the Pistols around dressed as a member of the SS but criticised Morrissey for flirting with right wing imagery. That should be in the OED as a definition of both "double-standards" and "delusional".

Of course, these days the idea Morrissey might embrace the Union flag is far less likely, especially when the Argentinian triband is available.
 
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Reagea, let's take that as a an item, I love a good Reague song, Peeniwalli by Eek -a - Mouse is classic as the live album from Burning Spear,Peter Tosh Buck-in Ham Palce is one of I like, as most of Bob Marley's work.

buT Reagea is, if you listen to lyrics gloriues Hymns for the black [community], and as they sing slaves...so they praise their roots, which comes close to, yes you know the word, where Morrissey was acused for.

it's not vile, but sure has it's lyrics about the supreme black race, not all, I like a live album from 1979 live in Belgium taped and released
Misty in Roots, what's also the name of the band.

just my 2 cents
 
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Reagea, let's take that as a an item, I love a good Reague song, Peeniwalli by Eek -a - Mouse is classic as the live album from Burning Spear,Peter Tosh Buck-in Ham Palce is one of I like, as most of Bob Marley's work.

buT Reagea is, if you listen to lyrics gloriues Hymns for the black [community], and as they sing slaves...so they praise their roots, which comes close to, yes you know the word, where Morrissey was acused for.

it's not vile, but sure has it's lyrics about the supreme black race, not all, I like a live album from 1979 live in Belgium taped and released
Misty in Roots, what's also the name of the band.

just my 2 cents

There's good reggae and bad, like any other genre. Most of it leaves me cold. I loathe Dub in particular. I much prefer Ska, the real sixties blue beat stuff, not that Godawful SkaPunk crap. Of course there is racism in reggae. The problem is pointing it out is apparently far worse.

Even Ska had the odd dodgy song. Prince Buster's Blackhead Chinaman, being the most obvious example off the top of my head.
 

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