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There is no other contemporary artist who is so famously difficult, so apparently enigmatic, and so passionately, religiously loved by his fans as Morrissey. From the moment he assaulted the public with a bunch of battered Gladioli in the early Eighties as the instantly iconic frontman of The Smiths, and through a long-distance solo career that has regularly and miraculously stolen defeat from the jaws of victory, England's patron saint of despair has fascinated and baffled in equal measure. However, as Mark Simpson argues in his wickedly funny and deeply sacrilegious portrait, Morrissey isn't quite so enigmatic as he might at first appear. To understand this most private and sexually ambivalent of stars and his seemingly erratic behaviour, one needs only to do one thing. Listen to him. Like a villain who wants to be caught, or a hero that wants to be feted, Morrissey has provided countless clues to his personality in his peerless, startlingly candid song lyrics and in innumerable hilarious and provocative interviews. At once Devil's Advocate and Counsel for Canonization, Mark Simpson Offers the finest psychological profile to date of England's most intelligent, most misunderstood, most charming and most alarming pop star.
ISBN: 0 946719 65 9 Publication: October 2003 224 pages. Hardback. Price UK £16.99 US$24.95 |
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SAINT MORRISSEY Mark Simpson About the Author Mark Simpson is an author and columnist. The Independent on Sunday said this about his last book Sex Terror "MAGNIFICENT.... Open Simpson's new book at any point, as many times as you want, and you'll find the sort of gem-like sentences that Zadie Smith would give her white teeth for." In the past decade, British columnist Mark Simpson has made a name for himself as a smooth but thuggish homo-provocateur. He has written for The Guardian, The Face, Independent on Sunday and, most of all, Attitude where Simpson became the gay columnist best known for taking on the male stars of our time, from film, TV, pop music and sport. Simpson's writing remains funny, sexy, sharp and provocative. He never lets the theory get in the way of the simple pleasures of reading him. The surfaces of his prose gleam, his style is crisp and the zingers come frequently. Then there's the "star" power of many of his columns. His critiques of well-known media males are irreverent and acute.
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