the beast
Dead
when i was at school. late 80's i used to subscribe to the perception that morrissey was gay so therefore listening to morrissey was an absolute no no anyway a few girls who where in my classes for some subjects had their file's with posters of morrissy, the smiths, album & single covers and i used to take great delight in vandalising them anyway when i used to buy the "now" compilations i remember morrissey being on 11 with suedehead and 12 with EDILS but would fast forward them. fast forward to 89 and i heard TLOTFIP and i thought it was boss and bought the cassette single. nothing else until i heard boy with the thorn in his side in march 91 and that was the one. the following month i got a load of music vouchers for opening a bank account. i went out and bought bona drag on cassette, louder than bombs, the queen is dead and the recently released kill uncle on LP's. that summer after leaving school i trawled all over the place in pursuit of the smiths 7"s as well as the few 7"s morrissey had released. i never have seen my old school friends to apologise for my destruction