here are the scans and the english translation of the Spex interview ..the tranlation divided into two posts...
Im happy for any corrections-suggestions concerning grammatics etc from my fellow germans ... (please write them into my guestbook and not via PM if possible)
THANKS VERY MUCH MOZZIA FOR UPLOAD MY SCANS INTO YOUR PHOTOBUCKET, since my photobucket account shuts down when i try to upload new pics
and thanks for maynard for helping me with a few words
The Moz Spex interview from 1987 which the Interviewer showed to Moz and which they briefly talk about it at the beginning to be found(inc the cover pic ) in this Thread(foreign language interviews):
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showpost.php?p=863886&postcount=4
not tranlated yet though, the interviewer from 87 did have a long winded way to speak/write
Something more about this foreign language^ thread in the linernotes*
Part 1
"What on earth was exactly reinvented?"
On his new album "Years of refusal" Morrissey follows the path/direction,
that he had choose to go in the year 2004 with his Comebackalbum
"You are the quarry":-with a powerful hardening of his own sound in the direction
of a direct, raw rock blueprint.
Steven Patrick Morrissey,who his going to celebrate his 50th Birthday in May,is
considered as England's most enigmatic Songwiter.
He has summonded to a rare Interview apointment in the 5th floor of the Londoner
5-Star hotel "Claridge"in a plushy equipped,spaciously suite. Dressed completely
in black , perfectly-groomed, with a pasted grin on his face, Morrissey nips on his cup of tea
and asks: "Would you care to join me for a cup of a tea or do you prefer mineral water?"
Question: Morrissey, two years ago when you last played a concert in Berlin, you said to the audience:"Your city is very beautiful..assuming it is Warsaw."
Answer: Oh god, did i really say that?
Q: Yes. One part of the audience did find that funny, the other part didnt.*
A: I'm afraid, I have to make a point at this time now. I use the wrong Words at the wrong Time once in a while.
Q: You often make Statements that hits a raw nerve..
A: I know. That's the way it goes. Every performer takes high risks in a stage situation-and can loose. But when you never takes risks, life is simply not worth living.
Q: I brought along two old Spex issues, where you did grace the cover. I found them in our Archive.
A: Thats where I am to be found . Down in the cellar!
In the archive! Thats where you find Morrissey...
Q: One issue is from 1986,the other..
A: ..is from the year 1967.
Q: Why so sarcastic? The cover is from the year 1987*.
You look into the camera, behind you is a montage : a Union jack with Margaret Thatcher.
A: The innocence in that eyes..I'm talking about Margaret Thatcher`s eyes.
Q: Innocence... are you a Thatcher fan all of a sudden?
A: I'm joking.
Q: What do you feel, when you have a look at old Pictures of yours?
A:Sometimes I think, I see no difference compared to today, then on the other hand
I see all the Years that went by, all the pain, all the joy.
The biggest Trouble (/arduousness) is that the Human being is trapped
in his Character,is inclined to always feel identical with himself, no matter how old he is.
Q:Is that so?
A: For the most persons its shocking,watching themselves growing old. I do view that completely different.
My motto is:"Let it go,let it go.,let it go"
Time adjusts and Time heals.. I never wanted to look back, I never wanted to be young again.
At no point of time. Why should I?
Q: Maybe to do things different back then?
A: Every experience in your life ,even when its a bad one, brings you forward.
Without that experience, you stuck and perish.
That is called: Depression. Depression means not getting nowhere/not getting forward.
I have absolutely no interest in the Past.
Q: But what is so bad about the Past?
You seems to be quite dedicated to the Past with your Preferences
of long deceased writers and Hollywoodactors...
A: I'm talking about my own personal past here.
I never ever wanted to get thrown back and being 25 again. Never.
I dont regret that time goes on and myself growing old.
But You are right of course. I'm very interested in this World-and their past.
"Older better, older better" that is my daily mantra..
...When I am, in 3 years time,have to walk with a walking Stick, hunchbacked, without teeths...accepted. I wont have a Problem with that.
Q: In 3 years?
A: In 30 years.
Q: Your preferences of authors like Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte or
for Directors like Visconti are well known. Do you have the feeling of being born to late?
A: All the artists that you name are indeed persons I admire very much.
But that doesnt happen to me alone. A lot of human beings share my taste.
Mary Shelleys`s Debut Novel "Frankenstein,or the modern Prometheus"
for example, who was published anonymous in the year 1818,
is about a swiss named Victor Frankenstein, who creates an artificial
human being, a Frankenstein.
This Novel still sells enormously good.
And nobody can tell me that only sick human beings who live in constant darkness
buy this Book!
Everybody who has a academic mind, and for having that
no academic education is necessary, as you can see with me, can
develop an opinion on that Topic.
Just because i never did go into outer space, that doesn't mean I can't reflect about
The Universe. In the End its all about your own imagination and Fantasy.
And my own fantasy, I must admit is unbridled and uncontrolled.
Sometimes even frivolous (/daft).
Q: Frivolous?
A: Yes in my fantasy I am constantly frivolous.
My fantasy is my constant Compagnion and escorts me into sleep every night.
It is a part of me and I do ask myself honestly: where would I be without fantasy?
Q: You want to say that without your daft fantasy , you wouldnt have witten a convincing Album like YOR?
A:That is very civilised of you.
Q: Talking to you means automatically talking about the Smiths. How do you handle your own Past?
A: Its obviously in the nature of a Human being, repeately, more than anything else and exclusively thematize the past.
This moment of us sitting here, will be the Past by tonight.
The future will be the past and the human Race regrets this since the Scripture was invented-
so its probably a natural Habit.
But you cant bring back the past.
You can not adjure it. And also the audience can not resurrect a band,
no matter if they had broke up,or where a member died or
they just simply have choose to run another path.
It cannot bring back the time where everything "is in order" back then.
That is absurd. I personally don t fell that impulse.
And even if we would assume , just hypothetically, that its possible, being catapulted back
into the past, then one will , when he arrives, will discern disenchanted, that some things
doesn't matter that much to oneself back then,as it seems to matter in retrospect.
I prefer the present.
Q: What do you like about the present?
A: It is so easy to complain about modern life: All the inhumanities and atrociousnesses,these noises, the cell phones, the decay of our language and all that. But I won't join in into this Lamentation. In my eyes the comforts of our modern Time outweighs everything else.
There are so many things (happening)today that make me happy or I could get exited about.
I never want to wish back the old times.
I grow up in darkened Years. I'm talking about post war period England in the early 60ties.
It was, ,to come back to the topic music,a time, where it was extremely difficult
hearing good music. To be interested in Popmusic was seen as something perverse.
Very contrary to nowadays, where everybody`s making music and looks like a Popstar.
But of course the today's omnipresence of muic has their disadvantage.
Music is everywhere, just ev-er-y-wh-e-re! I perceive this,by all means,as disturbing.
Not only, because very often its music I despise.
I just don't want to coerced to hear music in a certain kind of way, to be constantly get persecuted by it: in TV, in the commercials, as a ringtone.
: So everything was better in the past..still?
A: In my youth music was, in spite of all provisos (/reservations), something special, that you did take time for, to fully cherish it. And you had to search a long time for other people who did share this love and listen to the same bands as yourself. we discussed about music, we did take them seriously.
In contrast to today where music has lost lots of their identity-establishing (/generating)power.
Most of the contemporary music mags are meaningless, the current pop charts have no significance anymore. even people who deal with musicians on a professional level, no matter if its musicians or journalists, just don't care anymore about who is in the top 10. Why? Because the charts have become irrelevant! Very regrettable, very regrettable.
Q: You do critisise, in that context, Madonna quite some time...
A: Madonna can sell 60 million records worldwide and that still doesn't mean anything.
We did get used to the fact that trivial artists are spread over all those mag-title-covers
without the people in charge taking care, if the audience get any gain
of knowledge (/cognition, insight) for themselves from them.
But that's the status quo of our time. Everybody has arranged themselves with it.
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