Bowie author Peter Doggett describes Morrissey as "owning the 1980s"

An anonymous person writes:

A brief mention for our man in this excellent interview with David Bowie author Peter Doggett, at The Mouth Magazine

Excerpt:

… which begs the question of who actually owned the 1980s… Morrissey, maybe? The trouble is, I find his work very limited: interesting lyricist, but his voice and music bore me.

 

[Anonymous]

You know nothing. Morrissey's voice is what makes everything possible.

 

[Anonymous]

His voice is a bore? Where did that come from?! He's got the most wonderful voice. Your songs would sound more attractive if you had his voice, that's a fact.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, you Mr. Bowie were caught in bed with Mr. Big mouth Jagger. Boring!

 

[Anonymous]

His voice is a bore? Where did that come from?! He's got the most wonderful voice. Your songs would sound more attractive if you had his voice, that's a fact.

I love morrissey, he can definately and great lyrics sing but i can't argue that his voice is particulary boring, And not the best musically.

 

[Playcat2000]

His voice and music defined the 80's.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, you Mr. Bowie were caught in bed with Mr. Big mouth Jagger. Boring!

You do understand that Peter Doggett said this not David Bowie?

 

[Anonymous]

His voice and music defined the 80's.

True in some circles, but I think you'd have to agree that in the mainsteam artists like Prince and Madonna were far more influential.

 

[Anonymous]

No one owned or defined the 80's. You could say it was David Byrne or David Lee Roth or RUN DMC. I don't think any artist trying to be relevant now wants the honor of having ruled the 80's, anyway.

 

[HandThatRocksTheCradle]

True in some circles, but I think you'd have to agree that in the mainsteam artists like Prince and Madonna were far more influential.

..and a lot of those studio bands which churned out their one-hit-wonders and the rest of the album "filler", which comprised much of the music in the 80s. I have 400 vinyl albums of one-hit-wonders to back up my claim!

 

[celibate]

I say the same about showie Bowie, good voice, boring lyrics, got his fame from his ziggy stardust time and his music after his heroes single, and the movie Christiane F. [the movie is Bowie somehow an issue cause of a gig in Berlin, and titelsong ' Heroes'.

After that he made some singles but didn't made the level of influence he had in the 70's

Bye Bowie