Uncleskinny writes:
There's a
thread in the forums mentioning the Russell Brand article in The Observer Music Monthly. naming one of the Royal Albert Hall Gigs as one of the 25 greatest (in reality, they just asked a load of celebs about their favourite gigs).
I went and bought the paper, and there were a couple of other interesting bits that I scanned and put in that thread, specifically
here.
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Excerpt:
...I interviewed him years later and said I'd seen him perform. "I don't perform,' he said. 'What do you do? I asked, flustered. 'I appear live.'
'I saw you appear live,' I said. 'As opposed to dead,' he answered. I thought: 'I love you.' And I learnt that if you want to perform, you should wholly be yourself, as he is. Morrissey is his own archetype.
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Aso a mention by Brett Anderson of Suede:
The Soundtrack to my adolescence
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths (1986)
The music and the words of the Smiths resonated powerfully for a 14-year-old kid and this is their best record, which coincided with thir peak as a phenomenon. It was life-changing because they were speaking about the things I was thinking about: emerging sexuality and the general embarrassment of life. Morrissey turned the pages of his diary into art and that is the requirement of great music: to speak from the heart. And while Morrissey was a very skill ful lyricist, he wasn't really anything without Johnny Marr. Nobody played guitar like that before and nobody has played like that since.
The Observer Music Monthly (Score:0)
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Johnny Marr was fantastic... (Score:1)
since the end of The Smiths, Morrissey has gone on to create some of the greatest albums of the past twenty years ('Viva Hate', 'Your Arsenal' and 'Vauxhall And I') as well some underrated classics ('Kill Uncle' and 'Southpaw Grammar') a tremendous recent outing (ROTT) and loads of great songs inbetween. Marr has done some interesting collaborations with other big names such as Bernard Sumner and Brian Ferry including a few pretty good tracks and has recently had a failed "solo" outing followed by his joining on with another sort of big name, Modest Mouse.
Marr is a great player- one of the greatest- but he's no songwriter, at least not in the league of Morrissey or the best of his other collaborators. Morrissey is a true stand alone legend whose genius is truly immeasurable. Moz is the icon, Marr is juste the musician.
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Morrissey the new Yarwood? (Score:1)
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Suede, Jeff B... such wonderful memories of another time long gone. Sigh.
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14? he wishes! (Score:0)
simple (Score:1)
and talks like a twat
therefore he is..
and "the queen is dead" is NOT their finest work(how many fucking times!)..
and as for naked gay sex..he's sraighter than a roman rule..
a ruse,friends
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He's wrong you know... (Score:0)
Who is this Russel Brand... (Score:0)
Brand placement (Score:1)
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Good post (Score:1)
Brands' meeting with Morrissey is so typical and made me smile
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Greatest album ... (Score:0)
OMM Hmmmmmm (Score:1)
Smiths- Morrissey and Marr worked well as a team. They brought the best from each other and that kind of partnership is rare. The breakup of that must have been hard and maybe that's why neither has sought out, or been able to find, that kind of working relationship again.
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sick and tired (Score:0)
20 yrs have passed
name 1 marr song
well
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