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{{MORRISSEY
| Name = Steven Patrick Morrissey
| Born = 22 May 1959
| Hometown = Davyhulme, Lancashire, England
| Years Active = 1977-Present
| Record Labels = [[HMV Records|HMV]], [[Parlophone Records|Parlophone]], [[Sire Records|Sire]], [[RCA Records|RCA]], [[Reprise Records|Reprise]], [[Mercury Records|Mercury]], [[Attack Records|Attack]],<br>[[Sanctuary Records|Sanctuary]], [[Decca Records|Decca]], [[Lost Highway Records|Lost Highway]], [[Major Minor Records| Major Minor]], [[EMI]]
| Associated Acts = [[The Smiths]], [[Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds|The Nosebleeds]], [[Slaughter & The Dogs]]
| Official Website        = [http://www.itsmorrisseysworld.com itsmorrisseysworld.com]
}}
Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the band [[The Smiths]]. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. Widely regarded as an important innovator in indie music, Morrissey has been described by music magazine NME as "one of the most influential artists ever," and The Independent has stated "most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status he has reached in his lifetime." Pitchfork Media has called him "one of the most singular figures in Western popular culture from the last twenty years."<ref name="wmorrissey"/>
== General Information ==
== General Information ==
* Discography - [[:Category:The Smiths Discography | The Smiths]],  [[:Category:Morrissey Discography | Solo]]
* Discography - [[:Category:The Smiths Discography | The Smiths]],  [[:Category:Morrissey Discography | Solo]]
* Lyrics - [[:Category: The Smiths Lyrics | The Smiths]], [[:Category:Morrissey Lyrics | Solo]]
* Lyrics - [[:Category: The Smiths Lyrics | The Smiths]], [[:Category:Morrissey Lyrics | Solo]]
* Live History - [[The Smiths Live| The Smiths]], [[Morrissey Live | Solo]]
* Live History - [[The Smiths Live| The Smiths]], [[Morrissey Live | Solo]]
* [[:Category:Influences|Influences]]
* [[:Category:Influences|Influences]]
 
His own younger image featured as a backdrop during [[Mention::Once I Saw The River Clean]]'s live debut (2020) and then at his Vegas residency during [[Mention::Never Had No One Ever]] (2021). Also as a tour t-shirt circa 2013:
== Timeline ==
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| scope="row" |'''1959'''
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*22 May - Steven Patrick Morrissey born at Park Hospital in Davyhulme, Lancashire. Morrissey's family first lived at Harper Street in Hulme<ref name="wmorrissey"/>
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===1960s===
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*Morrissey's family moved to Queen's Square in 1965<ref name="wmorrissey"/>
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* Morrissey's family moved to a three-bedroomed house at 384 Kings Road in the suburb of Stretford<ref name="wmorrissey"/>
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===1970s===
 
===1980s===
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[[File:HandInGlove.jpg|right|100x100px|alt=Hand In Glove]]
* 13 May - "[[Hand In Glove]]", the first single by The Smiths is released on [[Rough Trade Records]]<ref name="whandinglove"/>
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===1990s===
 
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== References ==
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Morrissey, 2006

General Information

His own younger image featured as a backdrop during Once I Saw The River Clean's live debut (2020) and then at his Vegas residency during Never Had No One Ever (2021). Also as a tour t-shirt circa 2013:

Backdrops used in Los Angeles and Mexico City (2000):

Image from Nürburg (2006) used as a backdrop in 2016 during Good Looking Man About Town:

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Discogs Information

Profile

British singer and songwriter (born May 22, 1959, in Manchester, UK), best known as the former lead singer and co-founder of The Smiths with Johnny Marr. He began his music career in the late 1970s as a lead singer for punk bands. He formed Sulky Young (renamed The Tee Shirts) and later paired for a short time with Billy Duffy for a handful of live performances. In 1982, Morrissey and Marr formed The Smiths, and he remained in the band until he decided to leave in late 1987. He debuted as a solo artist in 1988.

Previously worked at the Inland Revenue.

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Wikipedia Information

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Steven Patrick Morrissey ( MORR-iss-ee; born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the frontman and lyricist of rock band the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, he has pursued a successful solo career. Morrissey's music is characterised by his baritone voice and distinctive lyrics with recurring themes of emotional isolation, sexual longing, self-deprecating and dark humour, and anti-establishment stances. Morrissey was born to working-class Irish immigrants in Davyhulme, Lancashire, England; the family lived in Queen's Court near Loreto convent in Hulme and his mother worked nearby at the Hulme Hippodrome bingo hall. They moved because of the 1960s demolitions of almost all the Victorian-era houses in Hulme, known as 'slum clearance', and he grew up in nearby Stretford. As a child, he developed a love of literature, kitchen sink realism, and 1960s pop music. In the late 1970s, he fronted the punk rock band the Nosebleeds with little success before beginning a career in music journalism and writing several books on music and film in the early 1980s. He formed the Smiths with Johnny Marr in 1982 and the band soon attracted national recognition for their eponymous debut album. As the band's frontman, Morrissey attracted attention for his trademark quiff and witty and sardonic lyrics. Deliberately avoiding rock machismo, he cultivated the image of a sexually ambiguous social outsider who embraced celibacy. The Smiths released three further studio albums—Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, and Strangeways, Here We Come—and had a string of hit singles. The band were critically acclaimed and attracted a cult following. Personal differences between Morrissey and Marr resulted in the separation of the Smiths in 1987. In 1988, Morrissey launched his solo career with Viva Hate. This album and its follow-ups—Kill Uncle (1991), Your Arsenal (1992), and Vauxhall and I (1994)—all did well on the UK Albums Chart and spawned multiple hit singles. He took on Alain Whyte and Boz Boorer as his main co-writers to replace Marr. During this time his image began to shift into that of a burlier figure who toyed with patriotic imagery and working-class masculinity. In the mid-to-late 1990s, his albums Southpaw Grammar (1995) and Maladjusted (1997) also charted but were less well received. Relocating to Los Angeles, he took a musical hiatus from 1998 to 2003 before releasing a successful comeback album, You Are the Quarry, in 2004. Ensuing years saw the release of albums Ringleader of the Tormentors (2006), Years of Refusal (2009), World Peace Is None of Your Business (2014), Low in High School (2017), California Son (2019), and I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (2020), as well as his autobiography and his debut novel, List of the Lost (2015). Highly influential, Morrissey has been credited as a seminal figure in the emergence of indie pop, indie rock, and Britpop. In a 2006 poll for the BBC's Culture Show, Morrissey was voted the second-greatest living British cultural icon. His work has been the subject of academic study. He has been a controversial figure throughout his music career due to his forthright opinions and outspoken nature, endorsing vegetarianism and animal rights and criticising royalty and prominent politicians. He has also supported far-right activism with regard to British heritage, and defended a particular vision of national identity while critiquing the effects of immigration on the UK.