6/9/2023 0 Comments Morrissey autobiography review![]() “Autobiography” is connected to various revelations, non-revelations, and clever negotiations. Considering how much we hear later in “Autobiography” about the feuding between the guitarist Johnny Marr and Morrissey, it is also notable that a prompt from Marr-who did not write the lyrics being appropriated-caused Universal to threaten legal action against a blog that makes no profit from a goofy little détournement. It is worth noting that Morrissey himself approves of This Charming Charlie, a popular Tumblr mash-up of “Peanuts” characters and Smiths lyrics. More to the point, the writing here is so vertiginous, impenetrable, and idiosyncratic that I kept hearing a (non-existent) Smiths song in my ear as I read: “You can’t tell me what to do, oh no, but I know you’d love to.” I imagined Lucy from “Peanuts” singing this particular number. The book’s editor, Helen Conford, is thanked at the end and praised as a “steady scrutineer.” I am spitballing here, but the faults and merits of this book probably lie only with Steven Patrick Morrissey and not Conford, in part because I can’t imagine anyone other than Morrissey having final say. ![]() Morrissey’s “Autobiography” may, ultimately, be a lesson about editing. ![]()
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