True and he was very young here. Very honest even though you can tell he felt uncomfortable I think the interviewer was certainly trying to goad him.

+Ashley Burns I am a poet without musician. Morrissey was very lucky to find marr, and of course, he is a great poet

Its even more lucky that Marr actually found Morrissey, he literally heard about him, went to his house, and knocked on the door

Yes, to a great extent Morrissey was lucky. And thank goodness for that.

I'm a musician without a poet. Message me your email and we could try something.

And very lucky for us of course !

We must all realise a part of all of us is Morrissey,! Genius.

@@mikeluke9404 beautiful

An 'old soul'

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH OH GOD!

i knooooow

Then after some years, he would hardly mention them or wouldn't want to reunite. I don't think he would refer them as his friends anymore as he met many other people he would prefer to be his company, but that's just my personal observation.

@@percyap4271 It was a shtick he did in the early days of the Smiths. I think Morrissey longed for that sort of gang mentality, and he wanted the Smiths to present an us-versus-the-world image. But the truth is that he was only friends with Johnny, and merely friendly with the other two. Mike and Andy have always stated that they barely knew him at all, and that they were rather intimidated by his 'artsy' circle of friends. In one interview Gannon recalled how after each show, he'd be so excited that he'd "get hold of Morrissey and swing him around in a celebratory bear hug. Mike and Andy would never dare do that". Check out 'Inside the Smiths', even if fans already know most of the stuff in it anyway, it's still pretty insightful.

I suppose you were there and you tell exactly how the tensions started. Good for you.

it's really quite interesting

@@CrossleyThePauper is it really so interesting?

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same here!!!

If only they were more artists like morrissey today...

although people can choose whether or not to listen to it

I laughed so hard at that part, haha.

Even more hypocritical when you take into account him cancelling his recent gig in Iceland because of the non-veggie menu.

Osc1llateW1ldly Either way he's still inflicting his views on others. Personally, I believe his heart's in the right place because I agree in that we shouldn't exploit or use animals frivolously. It's just that i find the contradictions hilarious and typical of his arrogant personality.

good for him! way to go Moz!

+TheJessicaPrince Hahaha...So true :)

Two lovers intertwined pass me by and heaven knows i'm miserable now..

Yes

I am a lonely sixth former

"entwined," not intertwined

Lucky BustUrd!!! (Apart from living in Larne haha)

Had the squaddies heard of the great man?

Not everyone needs friends.

I could see him being a cheerful Walmart greeter

He should have his own podcast in which he is the interviewer that hosts famous guests.

At age 11 i would wonder off in the winter, lay down in the snow and watch the clouds. I always was so alone that i walked in the woods and through the streets just to get out of my head or whatever. I would feel like my heart and head was overheating sitting around and i just would walk and think about how everyone made fun of me a school and how perfectly lovely the neighbor girl was. I thought my family was poor because my mother couldnt be bothered to buy me achool clothes or even dinner! Christmas was always such a letdown. I thought that the things i wanted must just be way out of her ability to afford. All the other kids seemed to get video games and guitars so easily. Turbs out my mom and her husband just didnt care to spend a dime on us. Whenever i would ask for something at a store her answer was always the same... " Do you have enough money for it?" I feel like crying whenever i think about those days. The pain inside that i would try to walk off is the same pain that led me to write songs. I wish i would have gotten the recognition that Morrissey has gotten or even just some recognition. I think my failure at life has much to do with my expectations in life being so low from being raised by a mother who made it seem as if everything i wamted or needed waa simply out of my reach.

You sound stressed and depressed imho. Hope you can find a therapist and talk things out

Joseph Shaffer I felt the same Joseph for many years but came through it. Go easy on yourself. For years I felt utterly alone but now life is easier, enjoyable even. The key for me was training myself to not over think things. Just accept. We are all on some sort of pathway with our own unique experience. Some get a better start than others. Embrace it. Accept it. Best of luck. It will work out good in the end.

Please look into traits of narcissism. Your mom may have been one. I'd find solace in the fact that you have recognized, rather than adopted, such emotionally cruel behaviour.

Give people a chance to like you. There’s an old saying “he who would have friends is friendly“. Just reach out, talking about every day things and let friendships form slowly. And understand that everybody has those feelings more or less at different times in their lives. Everybody wants to be liked. Everybody wants friends. Be the friend you want to have. I don’t share this because I’m better than you but because I’ve been in your shoes to a large degree.

Chuck a sleeper down a well after a stone. Watch it bounce off the walls. When a man asks have you seen a 🐐....say yes pal.....it was chained to a sleeper

I get the impression there are traits of narcissism in his family background.

@@Alsatiagent Is avoidant personality disorder usually related to having parents with NPD? 🤔

Himself

Oscar Wilde, I believe.

I wanna smooch Him MORE!!!

Not sure I'd go that far - he's a long, long way from an intellectual genius. There's a real element here of the lonely, isolated bright teenager who's built up this persona of a pseudo intellectual to use it as a kind of defence mechanism against the world. It's interesting how he mis-pronounces a lot of words at times.

@@th8257 are you kidding me? Have you read his lyrics??? I sense jealousy big time here

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This makes sense. Any other musicians you would call the same?

and Sandie Shaw.

Billy Mackenzie

And Pete Burns lol

@@gleroyTullySAEHEYKID He does not speak kindly of Sandie Shaw in his book.

Bea Livingstone He's written about past relationships, 'Miserable Lie' being a fine example, as the affair left him extremely unhappy. I remember reading he had sex for the first time when 14, which contributed to his decision of celibacy. Of the few relationships he's had, only one gave him particular satisfaction, in his late 20s I believe with another man. “Jake and I neither sought nor needed company other than our own for the whirlwind stretch to come…for the first time in my life the eternal ‘I’ becomes ‘we’ as, finally, I can get on with someone” This was after the records he released with The Smiths however. His songs with the band are largely about a longing for love and satisfaction, or brief instances of such feelings, rather than his own experiences.

Bea Livingstone Asexuality/celibacy has nothing to do with romantic attraction. Only sex.

Bea Frances he says in another interview most of the smiths songs are embodiments of other working class people,(i.e morrissey doesn't seem too much like a sadomasochistic teacher as he presents in handsome devil)

Bea Frances , in love? I wonder with who

Bart Simpson With who? Johnny Marr

I think it was meant to be absurd.

His autobiography is definitely not shit. Up there with the best of writers.

@@paintingtosser3814 Did you read the novel though?

@@lucasoheyze4597 No I didn't read the novel but his autobiography is a masterpiece. He is an incredible writer.

@@paintingtosser3814 Okay, you should read the novel...it's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read.