[originally posted in the Strange/unexpected Moz references? thread]



Photographer by trade.
No context given.
FWD.

Times-review on Luke Haines’ new book on music ‘freaks’: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...e?shareToken=e599acd9d2bc948f4150b58e6c43509b

Excerpt:
Lou Reed, Marc Bolan and sad old Morrissey feature in this hymn to the misfits of music

He also tackles a childhood love of Gary Glitter, “a kind of extreme stress test for the old ‘separating the art from the artist’ argument,” and holds up Morrissey, the former singer of the Smiths who now seems to be engaging in a permanent act of career sabotage, as “a proper un-grown-up Freak … He wants adulation and when he gets it he must reject it.” Being a freak is a complicated business.

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Interesting Morrissey segment from 09:40 (recorded in Florida circa October, '23).
Says he replaced Matt Walker as he couldn't do a set of dates.
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FWD.

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FWD.

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