# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morrissey
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:20.958Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morrissey"
name: "Morrissey"
slug: "morrissey"
description: "The Smiths made him a cult figure in the 1980s with witty, melancholic lyrics and a refusal to play the rock star — sexually ambiguous, celibate, draped in irony. The solo decades that followed kept the baritone and the barbs but added controversy: a shift toward patriotic posturing and immigration critique that split the fanbase he'd built on outsider statu"
tagline: "British singer and songwriter"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1959-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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totalFollowers: 364000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born to working-class Irish immigrants in Lancashire in 1959, Steven Patrick Morrissey grew up in Stretford after slum clearance displaced his family from Hulme, absorbing literature, kitchen sink realism, and 1960s pop. A brief punk stint and music journalism led to forming the Smiths with Johnny Marr in 1982; their eponymous debut and three studio albums that followed — Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, Strangeways, Here We Come — earned critical acclaim and a cult following before personal differences ended the band in 1987. His solo career launched with Viva Hate in 1988 and spanned decades of top-charting albums, a mid-nineties dip, relocation to Los Angeles, and a 2004 comeback with You Are the Quarry. His image morphed from fey outsider to a figure toying with working-class masculinity and British heritage, his outspoken stances on vegetarianism, royalty, and immigration making him as polarising as he remained influential.