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[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Music]] | [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Music]] | ||
[[Category:Covered by Morrissey / The Smiths]] | [[Category:Covered by Morrissey / The Smiths]] | ||
[[File:Jobriath_thumb.jpg | 200px | right | thumb |Jobriath]] | |||
==Relevance== | ==Relevance== | ||
Morrissey provided liner notes for the re-release of [https://www.discogs.com/release/390075-Jobriath-Lonely-Planet-Boy Lonely Planet Boy] (2004), released on [[Mention::Attack Records]] (ATKCD010) in 2004. | Morrissey covered [[Mention::Morning Starship]] live and released a studio version on [[Mention::California Son]] in 2019.<br> | ||
"I Love A Good Fight" was released via Attack Records in October, 2004.<br> | |||
Morrissey provided liner notes for the re-release of [https://www.discogs.com/release/390075-Jobriath-Lonely-Planet-Boy Lonely Planet Boy] (November, 2004), released on [[Mention::Attack Records]] (ATKCD010) in 2004. | |||
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[https://www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/here-are-those-liner-notes-by-morrissey-for-the-jobriath-album.39469/ Transcription by Tingle] - Morrissey-solo (December 4, 2004). | [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/here-are-those-liner-notes-by-morrissey-for-the-jobriath-album.39469/ Transcription by Tingle] - Morrissey-solo (December 4, 2004). | ||
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THE WORD EPICINE MEANS having characteristics of both male and female. Jobriath was not that. Jobriath had no characteristics of either sex. There was an unfounded rumour that Jobriath was a man; as a child, his father had used him for experiments, and that his birth had never been recorded [presumably because nobody knew exactly what to write]. Jobriath was that kind of pop artist. The dead-white, greenish cast of the face on this CD cover should tell you as much. This is not Sacha Distel. | THE WORD EPICINE MEANS having characteristics of both male and female. Jobriath was not that. Jobriath had no characteristics of either sex. There was an unfounded rumour that Jobriath was a man; as a child, his father had used him for experiments, and that his birth had never been recorded [presumably because nobody knew exactly what to write]. Jobriath was that kind of pop artist. The dead-white, greenish cast of the face on this CD cover should tell you as much. This is not [[Mention::Sacha Distel]]. | ||
Sensing my cue, I bought the first Jobriath album in 1974 at Rare Records in drizzle-fizzled Manchester. Neither for the ears of the elderly nor for those with middle-aged perspectives, Jobriath voiced the excess destitution of New York’ s most tormentedly aware, whose lives were favoured by darkness. Cinematic themes of desperate dramas in paranoid shadows were presented as choppy and carnivalesque melodies. | Sensing my cue, I bought the first Jobriath album in 1974 at Rare Records in drizzle-fizzled Manchester. Neither for the ears of the elderly nor for those with middle-aged perspectives, Jobriath voiced the excess destitution of New York’ s most tormentedly aware, whose lives were favoured by darkness. Cinematic themes of desperate dramas in paranoid shadows were presented as choppy and carnivalesque melodies. | ||
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Is it really necessary to lose your mind in order to get a hit record? Well, yes, it is. Jobriath saw things as he wished they were; the actual ‘70s landscape was immaterial. Thirty years on, he is no less and insoluble mystery, and the songs remain hugely enjoyable. | Is it really necessary to lose your mind in order to get a hit record? Well, yes, it is. Jobriath saw things as he wished they were; the actual ‘70s landscape was immaterial. Thirty years on, he is no less and insoluble mystery, and the songs remain hugely enjoyable. | ||
Sympathetic glances towards Jobriath in the ‘70s pinned him down as a sort of 27th-rate David Bowie. So it was to David himself that I turned for official comment. Did he remember Jobriath? “Oh, HIM.” Came the royal response, “always pushing into photographs…” and for this demonstration David juts out his chin, and we instantly see the impish Jobriath tagging on and hoping for a look in. | Sympathetic glances towards Jobriath in the ‘70s pinned him down as a sort of 27th-rate [[Mention::David Bowie]]. So it was to David himself that I turned for official comment. Did he remember Jobriath? “Oh, HIM.” Came the royal response, “always pushing into photographs…” and for this demonstration David juts out his chin, and we instantly see the impish Jobriath tagging on and hoping for a look in. | ||
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* [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/01/1559244 Jobriath compilation CD (Jan. 2004) to include 500-word introduction by Morrissey] - Morrissey-solo (December 1, 2003) | * [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/01/1559244 Jobriath compilation CD (Jan. 2004) to include 500-word introduction by Morrissey] - Morrissey-solo (December 1, 2003) | ||
* [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/26/0551249 Jobriath re-release info] - Morrissey-solo (August 26, 2004) | * [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/26/0551249 Jobriath re-release info] - Morrissey-solo (August 26, 2004) | ||
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