Bob morrissey biography review

Morrissey, solo-artist and former lead singer-songwriter of the Smiths whose album, The Queen is Dead , was recently named the greatest album of all time by the British magazine New Music Express , has published his autobiography under the esteemed banner of Penguin Classics in the UK [ Autobiography is being published by Putnam in the United States, an American imprint of Penguin].

The book is one big bag of grudges with bits of wit thrown in. A label whore in an entirely unique vein, Morrissey wrangling Penguin to publish him under the Classics imprint—usually reserved for the likes of, say Virgil—is less pompous then is appears. My chief complaint about most literary biographies is that the biographer only occasionally records what their subject read.

His recalls songs that kept him alive during a bleak childhood and particularly cruel schooling, though we get a peek at his bookshelf as well: Auden, Wilde, feminist literature, and assorted poets.

Bob morrissey biography review: out of 5 stars. 12 customer

The book drags when one of the ex-Smiths, Mike Joyce, sues Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Mars for a larger share of royalties. Page after page of ranting and eye-rolling over the resulting trial becomes quite the endurance test as most descriptions of trials are, being of so little interest to anyone not directly involved. No invective is left unflung.

Really, I was well on my way to worrying that a more apt title than Autobiography would have been My Trial —destined to be shelved along aside such winners as My Divorce , My Back Pain , etc. In technical fact, I am humasexual. That gay people have fought for sexual liberation only to turn around and deride bisexuals is madness enough to send anyone back into the bushes.

Asexuality exists and is finding a voice and making a place.