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[[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)]] | [[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]] | [[Category:Concert Backdrop]] | ||
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Most of my inspiration does come from outside music - especially literature and particularly Oscar Wilde..." | Most of my inspiration does come from outside music - especially literature and particularly Oscar Wilde..." | ||
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From [[The Morrissey Collection - Smash Hits (June 21 - July 4, 1984)]]: | |||
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"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." | |||
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[[Miserable Lie]] appears to have taken the term "flower-like life" from Wilde's [[De Profundis]]: | [[Miserable Lie]] appears to have taken the term "flower-like life" from Wilde's [[De Profundis]]: | ||
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"He was the first person who ever said to people that they should live ‘flower-like lives.’" | "He was the first person who ever said to people that they should live ‘flower-like lives.’" | ||
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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. | A caricature of Wilde by illustrator Chas Kendrick was used on the limited edition [[Mention::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. | ||
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Pendant worn by Morrissey at concerts (2023): | |||
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File:Etsy pendant of Wilde.jpg | [https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1033769816/oscar-wilde-large-antique-silver-pendant?click_key=b83b3c3759623fd6fb196ceefe10b23aa8c22637%3A1033769816 source] | |||
File:Morrissey Wilde pendant.jpg | Liverpool, 2023 | |||
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