20,887
edits
Oscar Wilde: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
|||
| (35 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[File:Oscar Wilde Getty.jpg | 200px | right | thumb |Oscar Wilde]] | |||
[[File:Wilde_books_Smash_Hits.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Morrissey surrounded by his Wilde collection (1984)]] | |||
[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Literature]] | [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Literature]] | ||
[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Comedy]] | |||
[[Category:Concert Backdrop]] | |||
==Relevance== | ==Relevance== | ||
One of Morrissey's favourite books: "Complete Works" - via NME interview (1983):<br> | One of Morrissey's favourite books: "Complete Works" - via NME interview (1983):<br> | ||
[https://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/interview/nme0983.html Morrissey - "Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer"]<br> | |||
Morrissey chose the "Complete Works", again, as an island book on | Morrissey chose the "Complete Works", again, as an island book on [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs_-_BBC_Radio_4_(2009) Desert Island Discs - BBC Radio 4 (2009)]<br> | ||
In [[Autobiography]], Morrissey states:<br> | In [[Mention::Autobiography]], Morrissey states:<br> | ||
<blockquote> | <blockquote> | ||
As the world’s first populist figure (first pop figure), Oscar Wilde exploded with original wisdom, advocating freedom for heart and soul, and for all – regardless of how the soul swirled. He laughed at the squeezers and the benders and those born only to tell others what to do. Tellingly, a disfigured barrister and a half-wit in a wig destroyed Wilde in the end, and in doing so one lordly barrister and one lordly judge deprived the world of further works from Oscar Wilde. | As the world’s first populist figure (first pop figure), Oscar Wilde exploded with original wisdom, advocating freedom for heart and soul, and for all – regardless of how the soul swirled. He laughed at the squeezers and the benders and those born only to tell others what to do. Tellingly, a disfigured barrister and a half-wit in a wig destroyed Wilde in the end, and in doing so one lordly barrister and one lordly judge deprived the world of further works from Oscar Wilde. | ||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
In the May 6, 1984 issue of [http://www.tiptopwebsite.com/websites/index2.php?username=thesmithsfile&page=8 Jamming! Magazine], Morrissey answers:<br> | |||
<blockquote> | |||
"'''So what makes you shout and jump and write and how close are The Smiths to real life?'''<br> | |||
Most of my inspiration does come from outside music - especially literature and particularly Oscar Wilde..." | |||
</blockquote> | |||
From [[The Morrissey Collection - Smash Hits (June 21 - July 4, 1984)]]: | |||
<blockquote> | |||
"My mother, who's an assistant librarian, introduced me to his writing when I was 8. She insisted I read him and I immediately became obsessed. Every single line affected me in some way. I liked the simplicity of the way he wrote. There was a piece called ''The Nightingale And The Rose'' that appealed to me immensely then. It was about a nightingale who sacrificed herself for these two star-crossed lovers. It ends when the nightingale presses her heart against this rose because in a strange, mystical way it means that if she dies, then the two lovers can be together. This sense of truly high drama zipped through everything he wrote. He had a life that was really tragic and it's curious that he was so witty. Here we have a creature persistently creased in pain whose life was a total travesty. He married, rashly had two children and almost immediately embarked on a love affair with a man. He was sent to prison for this. It's a total disadvantage to care about Oscar Wilde, certainly when you come from a working class background. It's total self-destruction almost. My personal saving grace at school was that I was something of a model athlete. I'm sure if I hadn't been, I'd have been sacrificed in the first year. I got streams and streams of medals for running. As I blundered through my late teens, I was quite isolated and Oscar Wilde meant much more to me. In a way he became a companion. If that sounds pitiful, that was the way it was. I rarely left the house. I had no social life. Then, as I became a Smith, I used flowers because Oscar Wilde always used flowers. He once went to the Colorado salt mines and addressed a mass of miners there. He started the speech with, 'Let me tell you why we worship the daffodil'. Of course, he was stoned to death. But I really admired his bravery and the idea of being constantly attached to some form of plant. As I get older, the adoration increases. I'm never without him. It's almost biblical. It's like carrying your rosary around with you." | |||
</blockquote> | |||
[[Miserable Lie]] appears to have taken the term "flower-like life" from Wilde's [[De Profundis]]: | |||
<blockquote> | |||
"He was the first person who ever said to people that they should live ‘flower-like lives.’" | |||
</blockquote> | |||
A caricature of Wilde by illustrator Chas Kendrick was used on the limited edition [[Interesting Drug]] etched vinyl & sleeve (taken from a pamphlet about Wilde). It would feature as a poster, advertising & t-shirt image surrounded by the words: "Interesting Morrissey" in 1989. The shirt was part of a promotional giveaway for the Interesting Drug release (Smash Hits magazine also gave some away as a competition prize). In 2022, a more colourful version of the shirt was sold via [[Mporium]] and at concerts. | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Kendrick-charles-ye-B20128-47.jpg | |||
File:HiRes-1.jpg | [https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/artefact/26522/MORRISSEY_ADVERT_1989 source] | |||
File:Dickiefelton-25012023-0001.jpg | [https://www.instagram.com/p/CjAlF1ANVAO/ Competition Clipping] | |||
File:MORRISSEY INTERESTING+DRUG-369822.jpg |[https://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=369822 source] | |||
File:MORRISSEYinteresting grande.jpg |[https://uk.mporium.org/products/interesting-morrissey-t-shirt-brown-mor source] | |||
</gallery> | |||
Image used as a 2012 backdrop ([https://www.morrissey-solo.com/media/nagoya.4061/ source]): | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Oscar wilde backdrop nagoya.jpg | |||
</gallery> | |||
Image captioned with "Who Is Morrissey?" sold at 2012 concerts: | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Oscar Wilde in 1882 (3).jpg | [https://www.vintag.es/2017/04/oscar-wilde-in-new-york-portrait-photo.html?m=1 source] | |||
File:28378 morrisseytd068.jpg | [https://d.morrissey-solo.com/attachment-files/2012/12/28378_morrisseytd068.jpg source] | |||
</gallery> | |||
Image used as a 2021 backdrop during [[Mention::Irish Blood, English Heart]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82xe0UbNFq4&t=500s video source]): | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Oscar wilde backdrop.jpg | |||
</gallery> | |||
{{Page | {{Page | ||
|FeaturedImages=File:Oscar wilde backdrop.jpg, File:Oscar wilde backdrop nagoya.jpg | |||
|DiscogsArtistId=432352 | |DiscogsArtistId=432352 | ||
|WikipediaPageTitle=Oscar_Wilde | |WikipediaPageTitle=Oscar_Wilde | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{PageDate}} | |||