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[[James Maker]]'s Autobiography.<br> | [[James Maker]]'s Autobiography.<br> | ||
He dedicates an entire chapter to meeting Morrissey and his relationship there after.<br> | He dedicates an entire chapter to meeting Morrissey and his relationship there after.<br> | ||
On first meeting, he observed:<br> | |||
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"The young Morrissey garret was a microcosm of Pop symbolism. The walls were covered in large, framed photographs of the New York Dolls and James Dean along with a signed print of the British comedy actress Esma Cannon. | |||
A Remington typewriter was positioned under a window that looked out to a small and scarcely-used garden where the family cat, Tibby, was buried. Mournfully, not buried deep enough as Tibby had a propensity to resurface in heavy rainfall. | |||
There was a bookcase stuffed with classic English literature, modern American titles, film compendiums and feminist writing. All along the floor of one wall were stacked a raft of vinyl records in alphabetical order. It was an enclosed world, seemingly independent of its surroundings, which could have been either a sanctuary or a cell depending upon one’s taste in curtains. | |||
But, certainly, it was from within these four walls that were formulated many of the ideas and the themes one would later see in their various manifestations: words, sleeve design, videos. | |||
It was midnight. I expect that I had not eaten since before boarding the train in London earlier that morning. I asked him whether I could have some cheese before retiring to bed. | |||
‘You should by rights be on a mortuary slab at this stage, and your primary concern is cheese?’ | |||
Thus began a friendship and a correspondence spanning more than three decades." | |||
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