Strange/unexpected Moz references?

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Whats the point in posting a lower quality vid of Moz TOTP ignore me than this one?

relax.

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[BookishBoy]

Nice to see a subtle Moz-mention in this Guardian column about the England/Slovakia game last night:

 

[Anonymous]

 

[ALLIE WALLS]

Tom Jones & Morrissey The Troubadour, WeHo, Los Angeles, CA 11th of May 2014.

 

[Famous when dead]

A play on the August, 2024 Time Magazine Biden cover.

 

[All the things you love]

Will Self's recent book Will is chock full of hidden Morrissey references, as well as Nick Cave, Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols etc. The odd phrase here and there borrowed mostly from the Bona Drag era.

 

[Orange Crush]

Tom Jones & Morrissey The Troubadour, WeHo, Los Angeles, CA 11th of May 2014.

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Moz looks a bit fearful, Tom looks a bit...erm...predatory. Just saying...

 

[goinghome]

Will Self's recent book Will is chock full of hidden Morrissey references, as well as Nick Cave, Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols etc. The odd phrase here and there borrowed mostly from the Bona Drag era.

Speaking of Bona Drag, the photographer responsible for the back cover of Bona Drag (1990) is Juergen Teller, a fact mentioned in a profile published by Domus today - https://www.domusweb.it/en/biographies/2024/07/01/juergen-teller.html

 

[All the things you love]

Speaking of Bona Drag, the photographer responsible for the back cover of Bona Drag (1990) is Juergen Teller, a fact mentioned in a profile published by Domus today - https://www.domusweb.it/en/biographies/2024/07/01/juergen-teller.html

That's super interesting! I was not aware of this guy. The photos in the 2010 re-release are ace. I don't know if they're the originals. In stark contrast to the macho stylings of You Are The Quarry.

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[JerryCan]

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Great look all round, but wonder where Boz was for that one?

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a really random one - just clicked on this trailer for a new Doctor Who vs. vampires audio drama, and immediately hear:
"I wouldn't mind a taste of Morrissey. What do you think his blood would taste like?"
"Milky tea, luv."
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/popout/doctor-who-goth-opera-2998

 

[The Seeker of Good Songs]

Moz related because its Edith.

There isn’t anything one can say which is of the slightest use. At last, though, a skin does grow over the wound. One never thinks that it would or could, but it does. First of all, one feels it is almost an unfaithfulness to one’s friendship, to believe that that could ever happen. But it isn’t so. It is just healthy growth. One never ceases to be fond of one’s friend, and one always feels them beside one for, I am sure, the rest of one’s life. I do believe that when one returns to that growth of life which is cut off for a time by sorrow, one is, in a way, giving the person who has gone a part of one’s life, just by the very fact of living fully. Meanwhile, until then, it is dreadful for one.

Edith Sitwell
Letter to John Lehmann, about the death of a mutual friend
21st March 1944

—Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell

from: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-have-a-new-plan

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[goinghome]

That's super interesting! I was not aware of this guy. The photos in the 2010 re-release are ace. I don't know if they're the originals. In stark contrast to the macho stylings of You Are The Quarry.

Perhaps Morrissey was going for the performance art angle in that cover, posing as a caricature with that macho styling? The ultimate corporate capitalist, the arms trader, but encompassing the record executive and other wheelers and dealers. And maybe someone in the entertainment industry admitting a need to defend themselves. I think of the lines in Sure Enough the Telephone Rings: Who wants my money now, who wants my body now... And then the strange story told by the Four Tops singer when at a hospital - https://shepherdexpress.com/puzzles/news-of-the-weird/news-of-the-weird-week-of-june-27-2024/

 

[goinghome]

Johnny Marr flying The Smiths flag in Scarsborough - https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/24424634.johnny-mar-charlatans-gaz-coombes-scarborough-oat/