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Morrissey, John Lydon and Ian Brown - three of the coolest rock stars ever.
‘rock stars’ ?
Morrissey, John Lydon and Ian Brown - three of the coolest rock stars ever.
Yes, ROCK GODS motherfu.cker.‘rock stars’ ?
Yes, ROCK ICONS OF GENIUS.‘ROCK GODS’ ?
Yes, ROCK ICONS OF GENIUS.
'Sweet' {if a little obvious} surprise while watching an early BBC doc on Alexander McQueen...
...with his poor old Mum reading through his school report cards.
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í was forensically studying the Davalos cover and comparing hairlines, foreheads and nostril shadows, at 3am {god help me}, and decided ~ No Dick. It must just be Stephen's wrinkles. Apologies for getting excited.
If you do not find that letter, you shall be severely spanked with a wet plimsoll...
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I thought Twitter had let John Lydon supporting Trump & Brexit pass it by, but someone has gone slightly viral giving him a kicking. He's the carer for his dying wife but butter commercial.
Moz comes up (as ever). Him flirting with the National Front in real life, as opposed to singing a song about it, is a thing.
Well, I hope Conor is happy with his metrics.
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It's been quite interesting to see large chunks of the white male mid-life media mafia on twitter react to the Lydon stuff. Alot of it is now running along the lines of 'these artistic geniuses aren't like us' 'they are special people, let them be' 'he's a legend', 'he's had a terrible life that most people can't imagine, have some respect', 'don't stop taking the PiLs' Etc.
Not agreeing with his views at all, but making the clear delineation between his artistic and cultural worth, and his personal worth.
í cannot think of a single journo of the old brigade who did that with Morrissey. Not one. Now, is that because Morrissey's 'crimes' are way worse than Lydon's. í don't see how. So why so? Alot of people are reliving the hatred of their youth, and it's just payback time, big time, but even the ones that said they loved him never offer the footnotes and apologies as they do with Lydon. Is it maybe cos Lydon's schtick was always hate and anger, so what do you expect? Whereas Morrissey's schtick was, according to them, the opposite? Dunno. But í think Origin Moz & Origin Rotten are more closely allied than most people assume. There is real anger there, and rooted in the same sensitive Irish working class exclusion; it just mainfested itself a little differently...
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"í've got a little list" Etc
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First time I read about the NME bullshit regarding National Front Disco I thought I got it wrong and they were talking about a different song. The narrative was always so clearly anti-NF to me.
The story he tells in the song and the way he incorporated the NF slogan remind me of a very popular song (released in December 1992) by a German left-leaning punk band, that also deals with a boy who becomes a neo-nazi. The difference is that it blatantly mocks the boy, something Morrissey avoided.
The song uses very explicit language (including the n-word!) but it caused no controversy at all. In fact it was a big hit, newspapers printed the lyrics and they performed it on TV a couple of times.
I don't think that's true, actually.What annoys me is that it changed his style - he didn't layer viewpoints so much after that because England for the English was ripped out of context.
I don't think that's true, actually.
He did change the focus of his writing after Your Arsenal, turning inwards, concentrating more on his emotional life, but I believe that had more to do with changes in his personal life than the backlash he had to face after the NME story. There were still multiple layers in his lyrics, just different themes. Maladjusted for example has some of the most "layered" songs of his career.
He did mention it though - so I think it is something he thought about.