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New-found glory (link) - NY Newsday

With a new album and a cult-like following from a new generation of fans, ex-Smiths frontman Morrissey is back in fashion again

BY GLENN GAMBOA STAFF WRITER

May 2, 2004

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A funny thing happened during his long, slow walk toward cultish oddity and "Where Are They Now?" obscurity, though. A new generation of bands (and their fans) came chasing after him to call him back. His hit - "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" - has come true.

"The planets have aligned, and there's a weird zeitgeist - it's the right comeback at the right time," says Marc Spitz, the author of "How Soon Is Never," a fictionalized account of a rock writer's attempt to reunite The Smiths. "It was smart of him to go away for a while to remind everyone of what they were missing. It's like dying without dying, and we all know about death and rock - even fake death is a huge buzz-generating sort of thing."

Morrissey now finds himself embraced by mainstream outlets that previously shunned him. His new video is getting played on VH1. His new single, "Irish Blood, English Heart," is getting played on alternative-rock stations. This summer, he will headline the latest incarnation of Lollapalooza - once the domain of hard-hitters such as Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and Red Hot Chili Peppers. And his upcoming album "You Are the Quarry" is enjoying the kind of prerelease buzz generally reserved for newcomers, the kind The Strokes and The White Stripes have cultivated in recent years.